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Cardiovascular Diseases > Heart Diseases > Heart Defects, Congenital > Eisenmenger Complex
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Congenital Abnormalities > Cardiovascular Abnormalities > Heart Defects, Congenital > Eisenmenger Complex
Cardiovascular Diseases > Cardiovascular Abnormalities > Heart Defects, Congenital > Eisenmenger Complex

Preferred term

Eisenmenger Complex  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Complex, Eisenmenger's
  • Eisenmenger's Complex
  • Eisenmengers Complex
  • Eisenmenger's Syndrome
  • Eisenmengers Syndrome
  • Eisenmenger Syndrome
  • Syndrome, Eisenmenger
  • Syndrome, Eisenmenger's

Scope note

  • A condition associated with VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT and other congenital heart defects that allow the mixing of pulmonary and systemic circulation, increase blood flow into the lung, and subsequent responses to low oxygen in blood. This complex is characterized by progressive PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY of the RIGHT VENTRICLE; CYANOSIS; and ERYTHROCYTOSIS.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004541

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