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Syncope--an unusual...
Syncope--an unusual presentation of ventricle dysfunction in a patient with Fontan circulation.
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Holmgren, Daniel (author)
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Redfors, Staffan (author)
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Rydberg, Annika (author)
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- Wåhlander, Håkan (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa, Avdelningen för pediatrik,Institute for the Health of Women and Children, Dept of Paediatrics
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- 2003
- 2003
- English.
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In: Clinical physiology and functional imaging. - 1475-0961. ; 23:2, s. 120-2
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Abstract
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- We report a case of recurrent syncope in association with moderate ventricular dysfunction and mild AV-valve regurgitation in an 18-year-old girl, 4 years after she underwent total cavopulmonary connection surgery. Cardiac catheterization revealed a transpulmonary gradient of 1-2 mmHg. During exercise, a dramatic fall in blood pressure and blood oxygenation was observed, paralleled by an increase in heart rate and central venous pressure. Although a slight increase in pulmonary vascular resistance could not be excluded, the reaction was interpreted in terms of an extremely low transpulmonary gradient in association with ventricular dysfunction. Five months after heart transplantation, the patient has been completely free from syncope. Fontan circulation usually involves a delicate haemodynamic situation which may necessitate haemodynamic re-evaluations, including dynamic measurements of the central venous pressure during exercise. Also a moderate ventricular dysfunction may result in compromised pulmonary circulation which in turn may lead to syncope during exercise as a result of insufficient systemic circulation.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Kardiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Pediatrik (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Pediatrics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Adolescent
- Blood Pressure
- Cardiac Output
- Central Venous Pressure
- Electrocardiography
- Female
- Fontan Procedure
- Heart Diseases
- complications
- diagnosis
- surgery
- Heart Rate
- Heart Transplantation
- Heart Ventricles
- physiopathology
- Humans
- Physical Exertion
- Syncope
- diagnosis
- etiology
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- art (subject category)
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