Eisenmenger syndrome

Eisenmenger syndrome

Eisenmenger syndrome is the process in which a left-to-right shunt caused by a congenital heart defect causes increased flow through the pulmonary vasculature, causing pulmonary hypertension,which in turn causes increased pressures in the right side of the heart and reversal of the shunt into a right-to-left shunt.

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