Right-to-left interatrial shunt secondary to an extensive right ventricular myocardial infarction.
This case report describes a rare complication of right ventricular myocardial infarction. Hypoxemia in this setting has only been described in two previous cases with a right-to-left interatrial shunt. This is surprising, given the high incidence of probe patent foramen ovale in randomly selected necropsy cases. Two-dimensional echocardiography with contrast is the method of choice for detecting this abnormality.
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*