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A complication of balloon mitral valvuloplasty is development of left-to-right interatrial shunt. This report describes right-to-left interatrial shunting following balloon mitral valvuloplasty in a patient with mitral stenosis, tricuspid regurgitation and pulmonary hypertension.
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