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B W Fouty1, D A Lynch, A P Fontenot
1Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262, USA. brian.fouty@uchsc.edu
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|November 20, 2001
Abstract:
A 37-year-old man who had an atrial septal defect (ASD) corrected as an infant was found to be hypoxemic with a 22% shunt. An MRI scan revealed that the patient's inferior vena cava drained into his left rather than his right atrium, a previously undetected complication of his ASD repair 36 years before.