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A patient with no cardiac murmur was found to have a ventricular septal defect by Doppler echocardiography yet no evidence of pulmonary or right ventricular hypertension. This array of findings is distinctly unusual and appears to be at odds with the clinical teachings concerning small ventricular septal defects.
Rosenzweig
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Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York.
Rey
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Williams
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Kronzon
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D000328:Adult; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male