Eisenmenger syndrome is most often a complication of having a hole (shunt) between two main pumping chambers of your heart (ventricular septal defect).
This then causes increased blood flow to the Lungs blood vessels instead to the rest of the body.
Eventually the hole (shunt) damages the walls of your lungs arteries (pulmonary arteries).
Eisenmenger syndrome occurs when the pressure in the pulmonary arteries becomes so high that it causes low -oxygen blood to flow from the right to left ventricle and then to the body, causing one skin colour turn blue.
The high pressure also causes the wall of your heart’s right ventricle to thicken (hypertrophy).
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