A Rare Type of Gerbode Defect
Prashanth Panduranga, Department of Cardiology, Royal, Hospital, Post Box 1331, Muscat-111, Sultanate of Oman. Fax: 0096824599841; E-mail: [email protected]
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Conflict of interest: None.
Abstract
A Gerbode defect is a left ventricle to right atrial communication. The type I defect (direct, acquired) results in a direct shunt through the atrioventricular part of membranous septum, while a type II (indirect, congenital) defect results in an indirect shunt through a perimembranous ventricular septal defect (VSD) and a defect in the septal tricuspid valve leaflet. We report a rare type of Gerbode defect wherein a small perimembranous VSD is completely covered by an elongated sail-like anterior tricuspid leaflet forming an aneurysm and directing the shunt into right atrium. (Echocardiography 2011;28:E118-E120)
