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Acquired Fontan paradox in isolated right ventricular cardiomyopathy.


ABSTRACT: A 44-year-old woman presented with features of congestive heart failure. Echocardiography revealed severe right ventricular dysfunction along with passive minimally pulsatile pulmonary blood flow suggesting very high systemic venous pressures. This was confirmed with cardiac catheterization in which the pressures of superior vena cava and inferior vena cava (19 mmHg) were higher than the pulmonary artery pressures (17 mmHg). Elevation of systemic venous pressures above the pulmonary venous pressures, Fontan paradox, to drive the forward flow, is a specific feature of artificially created cavopulmonary shunts. Late stage of isolated right ventricular cardiomyopathy resulted in the spontaneous evolution of Fontan circulation with a nonfunctional right ventricle in this patient.

SUBMITTER: Saran M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5007936 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Acquired Fontan paradox in isolated right ventricular cardiomyopathy.

Saran Mahim M   Sivasubramonian Sivasankaran S   Abhilash Sreevilasam P SP   Tharakan Jaganmohan A JA  

Annals of pediatric cardiology 20160901 3


A 44-year-old woman presented with features of congestive heart failure. Echocardiography revealed severe right ventricular dysfunction along with passive minimally pulsatile pulmonary blood flow suggesting very high systemic venous pressures. This was confirmed with cardiac catheterization in which the pressures of superior vena cava and inferior vena cava (19 mmHg) were higher than the pulmonary artery pressures (17 mmHg). Elevation of systemic venous pressures above the pulmonary venous press  ...[more]

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