Early appearance of echo-contrast simulating an intracardiac shunt in a patient with liver cirrhosis and intrapulmonary shunting

Tasneem Z. Naqvi; Tomoo Nagai; Shaul Atar; Robert J. Siegel

doi:10.1067/mje.2002.116827

Early appearance of echo-contrast simulating an intracardiac shunt in a patient with liver cirrhosis and intrapulmonary shunting

Tasneem Z. Naqvi, Tomoo Nagai, Shaul Atar, Robert J. Siegel

Cardiovascular Diseases

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Abstract

Time of appearance of agitated saline contrast in the left atrium is one of the distinguishing features between intracardiac and intrapulmonary shunt. We report a patient with hepatic cirrhosis who had intrapulmonary shunting and had appearance of peripheral venous saline contrast injection in the left heart chambers within 3 cardiac cycles after its appearance in the right heart chambers despite absence of an intracardiac shunt. Thus, time of appearance of saline contrast in the left heart chambers should not be the sole criterion to distinguish intracardiac from intrapulmonary shunt.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	379-381
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume	15
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1067/mje.2002.116827
State	Published - Apr 2002

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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Early appearance of echo-contrast simulating an intracardiac shunt in a patient with liver cirrhosis and intrapulmonary shunting

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