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Giant left atrium associated with massive thrombus formation
Giant left atrium is a condition characterized by huge enlargement of the left atrium with a diameter exceeding 65mm. It is most commonly associated with long standing rheumatic mitral valve disease. We present a 45-year-old female patient with rheumatic mitral stenosis associated with giant left atrium occupied by an 11 × 10 × 5 cm thrombus weighing 500 gms. The patient underwent successful mi...
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From the Second Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece. Manuscript received August 23, 2010; accepted September 6, 2010. A72-year-old, asymptomatic patient with a history of permanent atrial fibrillation was admitted to our hospital for an echocardiographic follow-up 6 months after a mitral valve replacement. Two-dimensional transthoracic and transesophageal echoc...
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An 88–year-old male with chronic renal failure (creatinine 2.5 mg/dl) was admitted to the hospital with dyspnoea. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a mass (Fig. 1) rotating in the left atrium (Supplementary Video 1) towards the mitral annulus (Supplementary Video 2), leading to mitral stenosis. The mass was successfully removed. Supplementary material (Videos 1 and 2) is available at EJCT...
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A case with a ball thrombus in the left atrium with a normal mitral orifice is presented. This is an extremely rare combination. The patient, aged 76, suffered from attacks of cyanosis, dyspnoea and shock because of lodging of the thrombus in the mitral orifice. In addition she had abdominal pain. The autopsy showed the thrombus in a dilated left atrium, and there were recent infarctions in the...
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Sir, It is accepted that left recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis in association with massive dilatation of the left atrium is caused by compression between the aortic arch and pulmonary artery by upward displacement of the latter. The cause of dysphagia in these circumstances is less clear. Morgan and Mourant' suggest that it is the result of disordered peristalsis consequent upon stretching o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1569-5794,1573-0743
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-013-0299-2