A 24 yr old white female presented with dyspnoea, orthopnoea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea, cough and fatigue. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a sinus venosus atrial septal defect (ASD). Right heart catheterization confirmed severe pulmonary hypertension (80/37 mmHg). A chest radiograph showed enlarged pulmonary arteries with peripheral pruning. Surgical repair of the ASD and lung biop...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 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. SUMMARY OF CASE We report the case of a young woman who presented with repeated episodes of hemiparesis. CONCLUSIONS Surgical correction of sinus venosus defe...

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is characterized by a defect in the interatrial septum allowing pulmonary venous return from the left atrium to pass directly to the right atrium. ASD account for 10% of all congenital heart disease, and as much as 30 % of congenital heart disease presenting in adulthood. There are four types of ASD that can be recognized as the seat of the port: ostium secundum, the ...

BACKGROUND The diagnosis of sinus venosus defects remains a matter of debate. It is crucial to provide solid anatomical criteria, by identifying the very nature of the atrial septum relative to sinus venosus defects, to diagnose and differentiate them from other interatrial communications. OBJECTIVE This study was designed to reestablish the anatomical criteria for the diagnosis of sinus veno...

It has been previously proposed that a method of distinguishing sinus venosus atrial septal defects from ostium secundum atrial septal defects is a leftward axis deviation (less than +300) of the P waves on the electrocardiograms of patients with sinus venosus defects. The electrocardiograms of i5o patients with surgically corrected atrial septal defects were reviewed to test this proposition. ...

This paper describes certain changes in the heart frequency, which are produced by localized heating of various parts of the sinus venosus. It was formerly found by Gaskell (1) that the heating of the sinus venosus causes an acceleration while heating of atria and ventricle had no remarkable effect on heart rate. In this phenomenon, however, there are still some problems to be solved. One unset...

We report a case of a 41-year-old Indian man who initially underwent an emergency coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG) after presenting with an anterolateral myocardial infarction.Post-operatively he developed progressively worsening symptoms of right heart failure with increasing abdominal distension and lower limb swelling. Clinically, the patient was in NYHA class 4 heart failure.H...