Acquired left ventricular to right atrial intracardiac shunt after myocardial infarction: a case report and review of the literature.
A patient without a history of heart disease was seen in our institution after 3-week history of progressive weakness, dyspnea, and orthopnea. Transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated inferoposterobasal akinesis and a left ventricular to right atrial shunt through the coronary sinus, which was confirmed on cardiac catheterization. This is only the second case reported in the English-language literature documenting this rare shunt after a myocardial infarction.
Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D004452:Echocardiography; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D014261:Tricuspid Valve