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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Atrial Communications before Transcatheter Closure
Published on: February 8, 2022
An unusual presentation of atrial septal defect in a patient undergoing total hip arthroplasty
B A Marak1, D J Wedel, N M Ammash
1Departments of Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|October 26, 2000
Abstract
Implications:
Atrial septal defect is usually diagnosed and surgically repaired in childhood. We present a case of previously asymptomatic atrial septal defect that presented during total hip arthroplasty during general anesthesia in a 72-yr-old woman. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography assisted in the diagnosis and in determining the appropriate treatment.
