Right to left shunt

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Overview

A right-to-left shunt is a cardiac shunt which allows, or is designed to cause, blood to flow from the right heart to the left heart.

A right-to-left shunt occurs when:

1. there is an opening or passage between the atria, ventricles, and/or great vessels; and,
2. right heart pressure is higher than left heart pressure and/or the shunt has a one-way valvular opening.

The most common cause of right-to-left shunt is the Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital cardiac anomaly characterized by four co-existing heart defects. The four defects include:

1. Pulmonary stenosis (narrowing of the pulmonary valve and outflow tract, obstructing blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery)
2. Ventricular septal defect (defect in the ventricular septum, which divides the left and right ventricles of the heart)
3. Overriding aorta (aortic valve is enlarged and appears to arise from both the left and right ventricles instead of the left ventricle, as occurs in normal hearts)
4. Right ventricular hypertrophy (thickening of the muscular walls of the right ventricle)

A right to left shunt frequently causes hypoxemia.

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