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Eisenmenger
(redirected from Eisenmenger complex)

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Eisenmenger
German physician (1864-1932).

Eisenmenger complex
interventricular septal defect.
Eisenmenger syndrome
the clinical syndrome caused by the Eisenmenger complex, a ventricular septal defect with pulmonary hypertension and cyanosis due to right-to-left (reversed) shunt of blood. Sometimes defined as pulmonary hypertension (pulmonary vascular disease) and cyanosis with the shunt being at the atrial, ventricular, or great vessel area. Characterized by exercise intolerance, cyanosis, anasarca, palpable thrill and auscultatable cardiac murmur.


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