Multiple secundum type atrial septal defects: identification by transthoracic color Doppler echocardiography

R S Rainer; F E Wanat; N C Nanda; L K Chang

doi:10.1111/j.1540-8175.1990.tb00402.x

Multiple secundum type atrial septal defects: identification by transthoracic color Doppler echocardiography

Echocardiography. 1990 Sep;7(5):567-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1990.tb00402.x.

Authors

R S Rainer¹, F E Wanat, N C Nanda, L K Chang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294.

PMID: 10149237
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1990.tb00402.x

Abstract

This case illustrates the utility of two-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography in detecting and localizing multiple atrial septal defects not consistently demonstrated by standard two-dimensional echocardiography.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Echocardiography, Doppler / methods*
Esophagus
Female
Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / pathology
Humans
Middle Aged