The cardiovascular diseases

THE INTERAURICULAR COMMUNICATION

- Definition
- Symptoms and Causes
- How to make the diagnosis, Complications
- Treatment

DEFINITION

The heart is constituted of 4 cavities, two atria and two ventricles. The atria receive the blood of the veins (inferior and superior vena cava) and transmit it to the ventricles, which eject it through the arteries.

An interauricular communication is defined as the passage of the blood of an atrium to the other, as a rule from the left atrium toward the right atrium.

Description of a communication between the left atrium and the right atrium while implementing an ultrasound of the heart by trans-oesophageal way. The green-blue colour corresponds to the acceleration of blood between the two cavities.
iac: interauricular communication,
la: left atrium, ra: right atrium.

This illness is the heart most frequent congenital illness and is often discovered in the childhood.

The treatment is based on the closing of the communication.

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File last reviewed on dec 18, 2011