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Therefore, a large left-to-right shunt through a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) results in left atrial and left ventricular enlargement. The pulmonary veins and the ascending aorta can also be dilated with a sufficiently large patent ductus arteriosus (PDA).
The different types of shunts used most commonly include ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts, ventriculoatrial (VA) shunts or a lumboperitoneal (LP) shunts (Koutoukidis et al. 2016). Shunts will generally consist of three components: An inflow catheter â This drains the CSF from the ventricles.