Multiple embolisms resulted from a huge fishbone piercing the left atrium
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Huge Left Atrium
Left atrium dilates and hypertrophies in mitral stenosis cases. Occasionally left atrium reaches to extreme sizes. In giant left atrium cases, mitral stenosis may be the sole pathology or it may be accompanied by mitral insufficiency, or it may present as mixed mitral disease where mitral stenosis dominate. Transthoracic echocardiography is the easiest and cheapest method for the diagnosis and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Intensive Care Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0342-4642,1432-1238
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-014-3232-9