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Supracristal Ventricular Septal Defect Complicated by Formation of an Aorto-Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Fistula: A Rare Cause of Biventricular Enlargement Cover

Supracristal Ventricular Septal Defect Complicated by Formation of an Aorto-Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Fistula: A Rare Cause of Biventricular Enlargement

Open Access
|Jul 2021

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Figure 1

Transesophageal echocardiography showing ventricular septal defect jet between the 12:00 and 2:00 positions (red arrow).

Figure 2

Doppler wave form on transesophageal echocardiogram.

Figure 3

Severe biventricular dilation seen on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

Figure 4

Supracristal ventricular septal defect (red arrow) with an 8.5-mm defect adjacent to the right sinus of Valsalva.

Figure 5

Aorta-right ventricular outflow tract fistula demonstrated by the presence of systolic flow jet (red arrow).

Figure 6

Aorta-right ventricular outflow tract fistula demonstrated by the presence of diastolic flow jet (red arrow).

Figure 7

(A) Biventricular dilation prior to surgery. (B) After surgery, there was marked improvement in end diastolic diameters of both the left and right ventricles.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14797/PEFD1523 | Journal eISSN: 1947-6108
Language: English
Page range: 157 - 160
Accepted on: Mar 30, 2021
Published on: Jul 1, 2021
Published by: Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2021 Amer Muhyieddeen, Ashwini Sadhale, Siri Kunchakarra, Ankit Rathod, published by Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
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