Case Series
Year: 2020 | Month: November | Volume: 7 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 178-184
Uncommon Facades of Atrial Septal Defect - A Case Series
Ambroise MJ1, Shine Kumar2, Nagarajan K3
1Junior Resident, Department of General Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, India
2Senior Resident, Department of General Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, India
3Professor, Department of General Medicine, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, India
Corresponding Author: Marie Jeffrey Ambroise
ABSTRACT
Atrial septal defect (ASD) is one of the most common congenital cardiac lesions in adults. While the most common symptoms include fatigue, exertional dyspnea, and palpitations, the presentation of ASD can be protean. In this article, we describe three uncommon presentations of ostium secundum ASD. Patient 1 presented with pericardial tamponade. Patient 2 presented with ventricular tachycardia. Patient 3 had moderately severe mitral regurgitation. These patients had chest radiographs and electrocardiograms typical of secundum ASD, but their presentations were atypical.
Keywords:ostium secundum, mitral regurgitation, pericardial tamponade, ventricular tachycardia.
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