Congenital Heart Disease

Eisenmenger's Syndrome

Signs and Symptoms
Diagnosis
Treatment

Diagnosis

An echocardiogram usually will show the defect and can measure the pressure in the right ventricle and the lungs. Heart catheterization, a procedure in which a narrow flexible tube called a catheter is threaded through the blood vessels into the heart, may be used to determine the size of the hole and to measure pressure within the heart.

Reviewed by health care specialists at UCSF Medical Center.
Last updated February 6, 2008