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Eisenmenger’s syndrome (or ES Eisenmenger’s reaction or tardive cyanosis) is defined as the process in which a left to right shunt caused by a congenital heart defect in the fetal heart 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.Eisenmenger syndrome is a cyanotic heart defect characterized by a long-standing intracardiac shunt (caused by VSD: Ventricular septal defect PDA: Patent ductus arteriosus or less commonly ASD: Atrial septal defect ) that eventually reverses to a right-to-left shunt.
