Agitated saline contrast echocardiography reveals a systemic-to-pulmonary venous shunt.
Contrast echocardiography with agitated saline is used to assess mainly the existence of interatrial communication. We report a case of a 26-year-old woman, with a "port-a-cath" central venous line, who had an unusual finding in agitated saline contrast echocardiography. Multimodality imaging revealed occlusion of superior vena cava and a systemic-to-pulmonary venous shunt.
['Masoero|Giovanni|G|', 'Papachristidis|Alexandros|A|', 'Theodoropoulos|Konstantinos C|KC|0000-0003-0321-121X', 'Harries|Derek|D|', 'Monaghan|Mark J|MJ|', 'Sado|Daniel M|DM|']
D000328:Adult D004452:Echocardiography D005260:Female D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial D006801:Humans D011667:Pulmonary Veins D012965:Sodium Chloride D014683:Vena Cava, Superior
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