Key result
A 26-year-old man with a large ventricular septal defect and rheumatic mitral valve disease developed severe pulmonary hypertension, complicated by atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death.
Why the study?
When cardiac conditions like valvular heart disease coexist with ventricular septal defect, different mechanisms can exaggerate pulmonary hypertension and complicate patient management.
Case Report (n=1)
The coexistence of a ventricular septal defect and rheumatic mitral valve disease can lead to exaggerated, severe pulmonary hypertension with fatal complications.
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May prompt PH monitoring in VSD with rheumatic mitral disease; leaves open incidence and mechanisms.
Most individuals with ventricular septal defect survive to adulthood which allows time for other complications such as pulmonary arterial hypertension to gradually develop over a period of time. When there are other associated cardiac conditions that also contribute to the development of pulmonary hypertension such as valvular heart disease, the pulmonary hypertension may be exaggerated. Because these different etiologies of the pulmonary hypertension have different mechanisms, their coexistence can complicate patient management. We present a 26-year-old man with a large ventricular septal defect and rheumatic mitral valve disease who developed severe pulmonary hypertension that became complicated by atrial fibrillation and later sudden cardiac death.
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Owusu et al. (2024) conducted a case report in Severe pulmonary hypertension, ventricular septal defect, rheumatic mitral valve disease (n=1). Combined ventricular septal defect and rheumatic mitral valve disease was evaluated. A 26-year-old man with a large ventricular septal defect and rheumatic mitral valve disease developed severe pulmonary hypertension, complicated by atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death.
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