In cardiology, a cardiac shunt is a pattern of blood flow in the heart that deviates from the normal circuit of the circulatory system. It may be described...

A right-to-left shunt is a cardiac shunt which allows blood to flow from the right heart to the left heart. This terminology is used both for the abnormal...

The Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt (BTT shunt), previously known as the Blalock–Taussig Shunt (BT shunt), is a surgical procedure used to increase blood...

pulmonary artery, or segment of the pulmonary artery.[citation needed] Cardiac shunts can be evaluated through catheterization. Using oxygen as a marker,...

pneumonia in which the lungs become consolidated. The shunt fraction is the percentage of cardiac output that is not completely oxygenated.[clarification...

or acquired shunts; acquired shunts (sometimes referred to as iatrogenic shunts) may be either biological or mechanical. Cardiac shunts may be described...

syndrome is defined as the process in which a long-standing left-to-right cardiac shunt caused by a congenital heart defect (typically by a ventricular septal...

In cardiac physiology, cardiac output (CO), also known as heart output and often denoted by the symbols Q {\displaystyle Q} , Q ˙ {\displaystyle {\dot...

A pulmonary-to-systemic shunt is a cardiac shunt which allows, or is designed to cause, blood to flow from the pulmonary circulation to the systemic circulation...

population. A cardiac shunt is the presence of a net flow of blood through a defect, either from left to right or right to left. The amount of shunting present...