A cardiac defect that allows blood to shunt from the (high pressure) left side of the heart to the (lower pressure) right side can result in:

a. cyanosis.
b. congestive heart failure.
c. decreased pulmonary blood flow.
d. bounding pulses in upper extremities.


Ans: b. congestive heart failure.

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