title: Intracardiac shunts.
abstract: Unsuspected intracardiac shunts can be a cause of acute deterioration in critically ill patients. Shunts can be acquired or congenital conditions that become symptomatic only with changed physiologic conditions. Transesophageal echocardiography is an excellent tool for the diagnosis of intracardiac shunts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nacht
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kronzon
mesh_terms: D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002302:Cardiac Output; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005402:Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva