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Case Report
Volume 11, Number 3, March 2020, pages 68-72
Anesthetic Care During Posterior Spinal Fusion in an Adolescent With Ebstein’s Anomaly
Table
| RV: right ventricle. |
| Risk for arrhythmias |
| Right-to-left shunting at the atrial level |
| Risk of paradoxical emboli |
| Shunt with hypoxemia |
| Pooling and recirculation of blood in the right atrium |
| Decreased onset of action of intravenously administered medications |
| Potential for increased pulmonary vascular resistance |
| Right ventricular dysfunction |
| Left ventricular dysfunction due to RV dilation with displacement of the ventricular septum with compression of the left ventricular chamber and impairment of ventricular filling |