Hypoxemia explained 36 years later.
A 37-year-old man who had an atrial septal defect (ASD) corrected as an infant was found to be hypoxemic with a 22% shunt. An MRI scan revealed that the patient's inferior vena cava drained into his left rather than his right atrium, a previously undetected complication of his ASD repair 36 years before.
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Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262, USA. brian.fouty@uchsc.edu
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D000328:Adult; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000473:pathology