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Atrial flutter: yet another cause of arterial desaturation in atrial septal defect.

Saurabh Kumar GuptaSakshi SachdevaRajnish Juneja
Published in: Cardiology in the young (2021)
Pulmonary hypertension is not the only cause of arterial desaturation in patients with atrial septal defect. Arterial desaturation can also occur with normal pulmonary artery pressure making it mandatory to understand the mechanism to avoid erroneous diagnosis. In this report, for the first time, we demonstrate atrial flutter as the cause of arterial desaturation in a patient with large atrial septal defect despite normal pulmonary artery pressure, which was normalised following successful radiofrequency ablation.
Keyphrases
  • pulmonary artery
  • pulmonary hypertension
  • atrial fibrillation
  • catheter ablation
  • coronary artery
  • pulmonary arterial hypertension
  • left atrial
  • radiofrequency ablation
  • case report
  • mitral valve