title: [Congenital ventricular septal defect with late detection. Apropos of a case in an adult].
abstract: The authors report the case of a congenital interventricular communication discovered in a 75 year-old female patient. The shunt was identified on the cardiac Doppler and confirmed by catheterization. It was a type IIa interventricular communication which decompensated in the course of a pulmonary embolism. This case points out how rare is the diagnosis of congenital interventricular communication made during adulthood, and emphasizes the advantage of the Doppler in the diagnosis of ventricular shunts.
authors.affiliation: Service de Cardiologie, CHU Robert-Debré, Reims.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bonnefoy
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chapoutot
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Metz
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Laudinat
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Doucet
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gandon
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Guérin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bajolet
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000150:complications; D011859:Radiography
vernacular_title: Communication interventriculaire congénitale de découverte tardive. A propos d'une observation chez l'adulte.