World journal of clinical cases · 2021
Right-heart contrast echocardiography reveals missed patent ductus arteriosus in a postpartum woman with pulmonary embolism: A case report.
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Chen Jin-Ling, Mei Dan-E, Yu Cai-Gui, Zhao Zhi-Yu
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BACKGROUND: As an established, simple, inexpensive, and surprisingly effective diagnostic tool, right-heart contrast echocardiography (RHCE) might help in solving a vexing diagnostic problem. If performed appropriately and interpreted logically, RHCE allows for differentiation of various usual and unusual right-to-left shunts based on the site of injection and the sequence of microbubble appearance in the heart.
CASE SUMMARY: A 31-year-old woman was readmitted to hospital with a 2-mo history of worsening palpitation and chest distress. Two years prior, she had been diagnosed with postpartum pulmonary embolism by conventional echocardiography and computed tomography angiography. While the latter showed no sign of pulmonary artery embolism, the former showed pulmonary artery hypertension, moderate insufficiency, and mild stenosis of the aortic valve. RHCE showed microbubbles appearing in the left ventricle, slightly delayed after right-heart filling with microbubbles; no microbubbles appeared in the left atrium and microbubbles' appearance in the descending aorta occurred nearly simultaneous to right pulmonary artery filling with microbubbles. Conventional echocardiography was re-performed, and an arterial horizontal bidirectional shunt was found according to Doppler enhancement effects caused by microbubbles. The original computed tomography angiography findings were reviewed and found to show a patent ductus arteriosus.
CONCLUSION: RHCE shows a special imaging sequence for unexplained pulmonary artery hypertension with aortic valve insufficiency and simultaneous patent ductus arteriosus.
CASE SUMMARY: A 31-year-old woman was readmitted to hospital with a 2-mo history of worsening palpitation and chest distress. Two years prior, she had been diagnosed with postpartum pulmonary embolism by conventional echocardiography and computed tomography angiography. While the latter showed no sign of pulmonary artery embolism, the former showed pulmonary artery hypertension, moderate insufficiency, and mild stenosis of the aortic valve. RHCE showed microbubbles appearing in the left ventricle, slightly delayed after right-heart filling with microbubbles; no microbubbles appeared in the left atrium and microbubbles' appearance in the descending aorta occurred nearly simultaneous to right pulmonary artery filling with microbubbles. Conventional echocardiography was re-performed, and an arterial horizontal bidirectional shunt was found according to Doppler enhancement effects caused by microbubbles. The original computed tomography angiography findings were reviewed and found to show a patent ductus arteriosus.
CONCLUSION: RHCE shows a special imaging sequence for unexplained pulmonary artery hypertension with aortic valve insufficiency and simultaneous patent ductus arteriosus.