Right to left shunt, with severe hypoxemia, at the atrial level in a patient with hemodynamically important right ventricular infarction.
This report describes a patient with a massive right ventricular infarction, complicated by severe hypoxemia. Contrast echocardiography demonstrated a right to left shunt through a previously asymptomatic atrial septal defect. This phenomenon should be considered as a possible cause of hypoxemia in the presence of right ventricular infarction.
D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology