Atrial right-to-left shunt without pulmonary hypertension in a patient with biventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy accompanied by ventricular and atrial septal defects

Intern Med. 2011;50(16):1747-51. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.5290. Epub 2011 Aug 15.

Abstract

Echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed biventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy with ventricular (VSD) and atrial (ASD) septal defects in an unconscious, 23-year-old hypoxemic man. Doppler echocardiography showed a left-to-right shunt across the VSD and a right-to-left shunt across the ASD. Cardiac catheterization revealed elevated right atrial pressure, although pulmonary pressure was normal. We considered that the atrial right-to-left shunt had induced the hypoxemia, which was related mainly to right ventricular dysfunction in this biventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy, but it was not related to pulmonary hypertension.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cardiomyopathies / complications
  • Cardiomyopathies / diagnosis*
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / complications
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / diagnosis*
  • Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / complications
  • Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary*
  • Male
  • Young Adult