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More Like This ? Atrial Septal Defect
Factoid 1224 - Created: 2001-02-21 15:48:05-05 - Modified: 2005-04-10 14:18:13-04
ACR Codes: 514.141
ASD is the most common congenital cardiac anomaly.
Types:
-Ostium secundum: most common type (60%)
-Ostium primum (35%)
-Sinus venosus defect, at entrance of SVC (5%)

Associations:
-Holt-Oram syndrome: secundum defect
-Lutembacher syndrome: ASD and mitral stenosis
-Down syndrome: primum defect

Clinical findings:
-may be asymptomatic for decades
-low pressure defect better tolerated than VSD or PDA
-Female preponderance
-May present with pulmonary hypertension
Reference(s):
Weissleder, et al. Primer of Diagnostic Radiology,p.112, Mosby,1997.
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Cardiovascular (inc. Heart) 		Sublocation:
Atrium, Right		Category:
Congenital, malformation
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