Cor Triatriatum Dexter: Contrast Echocardiography Is Key to the Diagnosis of a Rare but Treatable Cause of Neonatal Persistent Cyanosis

CHILDREN-BASEL(2022)

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Cor triatriatum dexter (CTD) is an extremely uncommon and underreported congenital cardiac anomaly in which the persistence of the embryonic right venous valve separates the right atrium into two chambers with varying degrees of obstruction to antegrade flow and variable degree of right to left shunt at atrial level. Depending on the size of the valves, clinical manifestations vary from absence of symptoms to severe hypoxia, requiring urgent surgical correction. We herein describe the diagnostic difficulties in a case of neonatal CTD, who developed increasingly severe and unresponsive cyanosis, first interpreted as postnatal maladjustment with pulmonary hypertension. The failure to respond to oxygen and pulmonary vasodilators led us to reconsider a different diagnosis. The use of contrast echocardiography improved the diagnostic performance of transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) and revealed a massive right-to-left shunt secondary to the presence of an atrial membrane that required urgent surgery.
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neonatal persistent cyanosis, cor triatriatum dexter, right atrial membrane, echocardiography
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