High flow velocity across a complicated atrial septal defect: Doppler findings and hemodynamic correlations.
An unusually high atrial shunt flow velocity pattern was recorded in a patient whose atrial septal defect was created iatrogenically during a transatrial septal approach to aortic valvuloplasty. The flow velocity pattern measured by Doppler echocardiography was predictive of the high transatrial pressure gradient noted later at catheterization.
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Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, NY 10016.
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001021:Aortic Valve; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology*; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000503:physiopathology; D002404:Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans