To Be or Not to Be Eisenmenger

Sarit S. Cohen, MD; Sathiji Kathiresu Nageshwaran, MBBS, PhD; Raghav Murthy, MD; Alice Chan, NP; Jennifer Cohen, MD; Simone Jhaveri, MD; Barry Love, MD; Ali N. Zaidi, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Feb 2021)

To Be or Not to Be Eisenmenger

Sarit S. Cohen, MD,
Sathiji Kathiresu Nageshwaran, MBBS, PhD,
Raghav Murthy, MD,
Alice Chan, NP,
Jennifer Cohen, MD,
Simone Jhaveri, MD,
Barry Love, MD,
Ali N. Zaidi, MD

Affiliations

Sarit S. Cohen, MD: Department of Cardiology, Montefiore-Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, Bronx, New York, USA
Sathiji Kathiresu Nageshwaran, MBBS, PhD: Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
Raghav Murthy, MD: Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
Alice Chan, NP: Mount Sinai Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, Mount Sinai Heart, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
Jennifer Cohen, MD: Children’s Heart Center, Kravis Children’s Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
Simone Jhaveri, MD: Children’s Heart Center, Kravis Children’s Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
Barry Love, MD: Children’s Heart Center, Kravis Children’s Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
Ali N. Zaidi, MD: Mount Sinai Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, Mount Sinai Heart, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA; Children’s Heart Center, Kravis Children’s Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA; Address for correspondence: Dr. Ali N. Zaidi, Mount Sinai Heart, Children’s Heart Center, Kravis Children’s Hospital, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, 1190 5th Avenue, Box 1030, New York, New York 10029, USA.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 230 – 235

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Eisenmenger syndrome refers to any untreated congenital cardiac defect with an intracardiac communication that leads to pulmonary arterial hypertension, reversal of intracardiac shunting, and cyanosis. We describe a 40-year-old cyanotic patient with congenital heart disease with presumed Eisenmenger syndrome who was considered inoperable. Testing revealed a partial atrioventricular septal defect with no evidence of pulmonary arterial hypertension, and the patient underwent successful cardiac repair. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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