Shortness of breath in a young nurse a sign of a lifelong defect

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Shortness of breath in a young nurse a sign of a lifelong defect

1 August 2018

Chris Ellis

Wednesday 1 August 2018, 01:00 AM

Chris Ellis is a consultant cardiologist at Auckland City Hospital, and at the Auckland Heart Group and Mercy Hospital, Auckland

The physical demands of hospital life soon make this young student realise her shortness of breath may be down to more than unfitness. Auckland cardiologist Chris Ellis explains how your patient’s initial suspicion of asthma was wrong

Key points, With an atrial septal defect (ASD), there is left-to-right shunting of blood between the atria. An ASD lowers the cardiac output from the left v, Heartbeat ECG 1 August 2018

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