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X-Ray Chest PA View in Severe PAH

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It can occur in severe pulmonary hypertension, there can be right atrial enlargement, as the severe hypertrophy of the right ventricle causes elevation of right ventricular end diastolic pressure, and later on right atrial enlargement. In VSD Eisenmenger and PDA Eisenmenger, you would not expect right atrial enlargement.

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Important Complications of Eisenmenger Syndrome

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Transcript of the video: Eisenmenger syndrome is an important complication of large left to right shunts which develop later due to development of pulmonary vascular obstructive disease and severe pulmonary hypertension. Diagrammatic representation of VSD Eisenmenger. It is also called Eisenmenger complex. But, leave that alone.

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Evaluation of JVP

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Right atrial hypertrophy as in tricuspid stenosis, pulmonary stenosis and pulmonary hypertension. But in a VSD with pulmonary hypertension A wave is not prominent. It will not occur in the presence of a large VSD which equalizes both right ventricular and left ventricular pressures.