Age: 32 years Gender: Female Occupation: Nurse’s assistant Working diagnosis: Atrial septal defect with pulmonary arterial hypertension HISTORY The patient was well until 10 years ago (22 years old) when…
Age: 30 years Gender: Female Occupation: Mother Working diagnosis: Atrioventricular septal defect HISTORY As a child, the patient was diagnosed with a partial AVSD (ostium primum ASD). Corrective surgery was…
Age: 36 Gender: Female Occupation: Office clerk Working diagnosis: Severe tricuspid valve regurgitation HISTORY The patient presented in early infancy with dyspnea and failure to thrive. Cardiac catheterization and angiography…
Age: 35 Gender: Female Occupation: Hairdresser Working diagnosis: Repaired atrioventricular septal defect HISTORY The patient was diagnosed at birth with an intermediate AVSD. At age 3 she underwent repair of…
Age: 31 years Gender: Female Occupation: Nurse Working diagnosis: Repaired atrioventricular septal defect HISTORY The patient had an AVSD diagnosed in infancy and repaired in childhood. By age 6, however,…
Age: 57 years Gender: Female Occupation: High school teacher Working diagnosis: Muscular ventricular septal defect HISTORY The patient was evaluated for a heart murmur during pregnancy 20 years prior to…
Age: 58 Gender: Female Occupation: Professional gardener Working diagnosis: Repaired partial atrioventricular septal defect HISTORY The patient was well until her mid-20s, when she noted progressive shortness of breath. Workup…
Age: 23 years Gender: Male Occupation: College student Working diagnosis: Aortic regurgitation, after closure of outlet ventricular septal defect HISTORY The patient was born uneventfully at term, but at 18…
Age: 34 years Gender: Female Occupation: Homemaker Working diagnosis: Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection HISTORY The patient was well at birth and throughout childhood, but had been told her heart…
Age: 54 years old Gender: Female Occupation: Housewife Working diagnosis: Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return HISTORY The patient was well throughout her life until the age of 44 (10 years…
