Gargantuan left atrium: a sequela of mitral regurgitation and mitral stenosis.
Echocardiography
; 32(6): 1033-5, 2015 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and echocardiography revealed a gargantuan left atrium measuring 18.9 cm × 15.7 cm × 11.3 cm in a 56-year-old patient diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis, severe pulmonary hypertension, and permanent atrial fibrillation. A chest x-ray also revealed a cardiothoracic ratio approaching 1.0 and a transthoracic echocardiogram measured diameters as large as 19.2 cm. The patient then underwent mitral valve replacement and left atrial reduction surgery and has had no further admissions or complications.
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Átrios do Coração
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Insuficiência da Valva Mitral
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Estenose da Valva Mitral
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Diagnostic_studies
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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En
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2015
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Article