cardiac shunt

Right-to-Left Heart Shunt (Birth Defect) Types and Symptoms

The heart receives blood in its atria and pushes out blood from its ventricles. There are four such chambers in the heart – right and left atria (singular ~ atrium) and the right and left ventricles. The right side of the heart (right atrium and right ventricles) handles deoxygenated blood (blood that is low in >> Read More ...

Left-to-Right Cardiac Shunts (Heart) Types and Symptoms

Congenital heart defects arise in the fetal stage in life when the development of the heart and/or great blood vessels is disrupted in some manner. This leads to a structural abnormality in the heart or vessels which depending on the type and extent may case mild to severe symptoms or can even be life threatening. The >> Read More ...