Isolated Rheumatic Mitral Regurgitation with Giant Left Atrium in Sinus Rhythm – A Case Report

A Giant Left Atrium in Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis

Enlargement of left atrium (LA) is not infrequently observed in patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis. We recently met a patient who had a giant LA associated with severe mitral stenosis. The right ventricle had almost collapsed due to compression by the LA. Mitral valve surgery was performed for mitral stenosis and the postoperative course was uneventful. Thus, we suggest that clinicians sho...

Rheumatic Mitral Valvulitis with a “Giant Vegetation”—A Case Report

Infective endocarditis (IE) is the infection of inner endothelial layer of the heart including the heart valves and it may present as rapidly progressive or manifest itself as subacute or chronic disease. The epidemiology of infective endocarditis has been changed over the past few decades and the incidence of IE in children in United States and Canada is 1 in 1250 pediatric hospital admissions...

Giant left atrium in a patient with prosthetic mitral valve.

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Giant Left Atrium in Patients With Mitral Stenosis

Background. To examine whether an extremely enlarged left atrium (giant left atrium) obstructs the venous return from the inferior vena cava (IVC), the velocity ofIVC flow was measured at its junction with the right atrium (IVC orifice) in patients with mitral stenosis by use of color and pulsed-wave Doppler echocardiography from a right parasternal longitudinal plane. Methods and Results. The ...

A giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm presenting with severe mitral regurgitation.