What Does Acyanotic Mean

: characterized by the absence of cyanosis acyanotic patients acyanotic heart disease.

What is an Acyanotic heart defect?

Acyanotic heart disease is a heart defect that affects the normal flow of blood. Examples include a hole in the heart wall. The condition is present at birth but may not cause any symptoms or problems until later in life. Sometimes the problem corrects itself during childhood.

Why is acyanotic left to right?

With physiologic declines in pulmonary vascular resistance, compensatory in utero right ventricular hypertrophy regresses, resulting in a more compliant right ventricle and atrium. This allows a progressive left-to-right increase in ASD shunt volume that is further pronounced with larger defect size.