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cardiac left to right shunt

See Eisenmenger's syndrome Pathology: - a large left to right cardiac shunt can produce pulmonary hypertension & irreversible pulmonary vascular disease - pulmonary hypertension can cause a left to right shunt to reverse so that blood flows from right to left, resulting in cyanotic heart disease (see Eisenmenger's syndrome)

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Eisenmenger's syndrome

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cardiac shunt

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
  2. Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 16 American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2012