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Interventional Cardiology (Expert Forum)
can you please shed some light?
Answered by
Mukesh Garg, MD - Cardiology, Internal Medicine
Truman Medical Center
Kansas City - MO
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can you please shed some light?
by coco74, Dec 05, 2008 03:14PM
I recently went to cardiology because of chronic orthostatic hypotension and they performed a transthoracic echo and found 2 ASD's, they then did a TEE which was inconclusive because I was pulling out tube! they then did a bubble echo which showed the saline shunting straight across. Then they sent me for an MRI to determine more detail. This is where it gets confusing. The next letter I received said the MRI was normal!!!???. So I have no idea if I have holes or not. Is it posible to see clear shunting on a bubble echo and then have no holes? I understand that shunting can be intermittant but not the holes surely. What could this mean, is it possible for the first two echo's to be wrong or for the MRI to be wrong? and should they have done the MRI with contrast to see shunting?
I would really appreciate an answer to these questions or possibilities as I appreciate it will be difficult to know specifics. Thank you
I would really appreciate an answer to these questions or possibilities as I appreciate it will be difficult to know specifics. Thank you
Doctor's Answer
by Mukesh Garg, MD, Dec 08, 2008 11:16PM
, Dec 08, 2008 11:16PM
Shunts can be intermittent at times and are best evaluated by using various manuovers to change intracardiac pressures (like Valsalva) during TEE with bubble study
