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Adult presentation of complete atrioventricular septal defect
Murray H Kown1, Luca Vricella, Christopher T Salerno
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Asian Cardiovascular & Thoracic Annals
|January 23, 2003
Abstract:
Complete atrioventricular septal defect generally presents early in life with symptoms of congestive heart failure. Untreated, patients almost universally develop irreversible pulmonary hypertension. We present an unusual case of a Down's syndrome patient whose septal defect first presented at 20 years of age.