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European Journal of Echocardiography 2008 9(2):316-317; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jem068
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Partial ventricular septal defect (Pacman® Heart)

Elisabet Pujol1,*, Manel Morales1, Jos R.T.C. Roelandt2, Maria Jésus Pérez1, Rafel Masià1, Joan Sala1 and Marcel L. Geleijnse2

1 Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital Universitari Dr Josep Trueta, Avda. De França, s/n, 17001 Girona, Spain
2 Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Received 29 September 2006; accepted after revision 9 September 2007.

* Corresponding author. Tel: +34 627296108; fax: +34 972226050. E-mail address: bet.pujol{at}gmail.com


  Abstract

Complete ventricular septal defects (VSD) can be congenital (estimated prevalence 0.5% in live births) (Roguin N, et al. High prevalence of muscular ventricular septal defect in neonates. J Am Coll Cardiol 1995;26:1545–1548) or may be a complication of acute myocardial infarction (estimated incidence in the era of thrombolysis 0.2%) [Crenshaw BS, et al. Risk factors, angiographic patterns, and outcomes in patients with ventricular septal defect complicating acute myocardial infarction. GUSTO-I (Global Utilization of Streptokinase and TPA for Occluded Coronary Arteries) Trial Investigators. Circulation 2000;101:27–32]. In this paper, we report two unique cases of partial VSD.

Keywords: Ventricular septal defect


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