Diseases

Eisenmenger Complex

A condition associated with VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT and other congenital heart defects that allow the mixing of pulmonary and systemic circulation, increase blood flow into the lung, and subsequent responses to low oxygen in blood. This complex is characterized by progressive PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY of the RIGHT VENTRICLE; CYANOSIS; and ERYTHROCYTOSIS.

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A condition associated with VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT and other congenital heart defects that allow the mixing of pulmonary and systemic circulation, increase blood flow into the lung, and subsequent responses to low oxygen in blood. This complex is characterized by progressive PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY of the RIGHT VENTRICLE; CYANOSIS; and ERYTHROCYTOSIS.

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  • Eisenmenger Syndrome
  • Eisenmenger's Complex
  • Eisenmenger's Syndrome
  • Complex, Eisenmenger
  • Complex, Eisenmenger's
  • Eisenmengers Complex
  • Eisenmengers Syndrome
  • Syndrome, Eisenmenger
  • Syndrome, Eisenmenger's

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Eisenmenger Complex. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004541. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004541
  2. Eisenmenger Complex. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1313103