EISENMENGER SYNDROME IN THE ADULT WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 35-year-old-young man from Guatemala presented with chronic cough and progressive fatigue. He was told that he had a “hole in his heart” when he…
THE ADULT WITH A SINGLE VENTRICLE AND FONTAN PALLIATION
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 20-year-old man with a single morphologic left ventricle due to tricuspid atresia and ventricular inversion with transposed great arteries, with transposed great arteries presents…
AORTOPATHIES IN THE ADULT WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 28-year-old woman presented to her local rural hospital with acute-onset severe chest pain which came on at rest. There was no inciting physical or…
THE ADULT WITH REPAIRED TETRALOGY OF FALLOT
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 29-year-old man born with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) underwent repair when he was 9 months of age. Repair consisted of creation of a right…
THE ADULT WITH D-TRANSPOSITION OF THE GREAT ARTERIES (D-TGA)
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 29-year-old man was born a “blue baby” and found to have d-transposition of the great arteries (D-TGA). A balloon atrial septostomy (BAS) was performed…
THE ADULT WITH CONGENITALLY CORRECTED TRANSPOSITION OF THE GREAT ARTERIES: (CC-TGA OR L-TGA)
PATIENT STORY 1 Print Section Listen A 45-year-old woman is referred to cardiology for a murmur and abnormal echocardiogram. She had overall a healthy life. She had 3 uncomplicated pregnancies….
THE ADULT WITH EBSTEIN’s ANOMALY OF THE TRICUSPID VALVE
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 32-year-old woman presented for evaluation of decreasing exercise tolerance and a loud heart murmur. On physical examination, she had a fixed split second heart…
THE ADULT WITH COARCTATION OF THE AORTA
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 23-year-old man was seen for difficult-to-control hypertension. On initial presentation he had a blood pressure (BP) of 160/90 mm Hg. Despite initiation of multiple…
THE ADULT WITH INTRACARDIAC SHUNT LESIONS: ASD, VSD, AND AVSD
ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECTS Print Section Listen PATIENT STORY A 35-year-old woman presented to the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic 1 month after successful caesarean section (C-section) of her second child….
INTRODUCTION
A GROWING POPULATION Print Section Listen Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect with an incidence ranging from 4 to 50/1000 live births, a range that is…
