Cardiac assessment in Turner's syndrome: a case for the inclusion of coronary angiography.
This case reveals a 25-year-old woman presenting with a supraventricular tachycardia who was found to have Turner's syndrome. Color flow Doppler echocardiography revealed diastolic jets, which cardiac arteriography confirmed as coronary artery-pulmonary artery fistulas.
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University of Florida Health Sciences Center, Department of Medicine, Jacksonville.
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D000328:Adult; D001159:Arterio-Arterial Fistula / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D014424:Turner Syndrome / Q000150:complications*