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Reminder of important clinical lesson
Breathlessness and new de-saturation in a patient with congenital heart disease: a time to thrombolyse or to seek specialist help?
Summary
A patient with known repaired complex congenital heart disease was referred as an emergency with increasing breathlessness on exertion. He was not short of breath at rest and had a saturation of 85% in air. A CT pulmonary angiography demonstrated decreased flow from his right ventricle to pulmonary artery, which was thought to be due to pulmonary embolism. We reviewed the CT with a knowledge and understanding of his anatomy and found that he had developed a false aneurysm of his right ventricular outflow tract, which required surgical treatment.
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