Sinus venosus-type atrial septal defect: a rare curable cause of recurrent transient neurological deficits.
OBJECTIVE
Sinus venosus defect is a rare cardiac abnormality, provoking an interatrial shunting outside the interatrial septum. Echographic diagnosis is difficult and may require examination by a specialized cardiologist.


METHODS
We report the case of a young woman who presented with repeated episodes of hemiparesis.


CONCLUSIONS
Surgical correction of sinus venosus defect led to disappearance of neurological symptoms.
Cakmak
Serkan
S
Cerebrovascular Unit, Hôpital Neurologique et Neurochirurgical P. Wertheimer, 69677 Bron Cedex, France.
Goldman
Christine
C
Bozio
André
A
Nighoghossian
Norbert
N
Derex
Laurent
L
Trouillas
Paul
P
D000293:Adolescent; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D012008:Recurrence