Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics
Print ISSN : 0300-9173
A Case of an Advanced Aged Eisenmenger's Syndrome
Hiroyuki TanakaJunzo NagashimaSachihiko NobuokaToru AwayaYasunori OzawaMasaaki ShibamotoHisanobu AdachiNobuyuki MitsuyaYoshihiko MiyakeMasahiro Murayama
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2000 Volume 37 Issue 12 Pages 1004-1008

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We report a 70-year-old women with Eisenmenger's syndrome. Eisenmenger's syndrome with ventricular septal defect was diagnosed at another hospital when she was 32 years old. Then, she was referred to our hospital at age 60 old and she now is according to the out patient in over clinic. She have mild cardiac function. NYHA classification, was II-M. polycythemia cell blood count 535×104 and 17.2g/dl in hemoglobin. Echocardiography sugested serious Eisenmenger's syndrome. The left ventricle was compressed, the blood pressure of the right ventricle exceeded 105mmHg, and the onset of the right to left shunt flow was thought to be 250msec bored on the electrocardiogram Q wave. The reason why the progression of complicated obstructive pulmonary artery disease was slow may have been become of the mildness of her polycythemia, and this is presumed to be the reason for her long survival to age 70.

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