Effect of left atrial compliance on pulmonary artery pressure: a case report

BACKGROUND: Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction, with secondary atrial pressure elevation, is a well-known concept. On the contrary, effect of left atrial compliance on pulmonary pressure is rarely considered. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the echocardiographic case of a 9-year-old child who prese...

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Autores principales: Marijon, Eloi, Jani, Dinesh, Voicu, Sébastian, Ou, Phalla
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1557539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16901350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-4-31
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author Marijon, Eloi
Jani, Dinesh
Voicu, Sébastian
Ou, Phalla
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Jani, Dinesh
Voicu, Sébastian
Ou, Phalla
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description BACKGROUND: Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction, with secondary atrial pressure elevation, is a well-known concept. On the contrary, effect of left atrial compliance on pulmonary pressure is rarely considered. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the echocardiographic case of a 9-year-old child who presented severe rheumatic mitral valve regurgitation with a giant left atrium, in contrast to a normal artery pulmonary pressure, testifying of the high left atrial compliance. CONCLUSION: Left atrial compliance is an important determinant of symptoms and pulmonary artery pressure in mitral valve disease.
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spelling pubmed-15575392006-08-30 Effect of left atrial compliance on pulmonary artery pressure: a case report Marijon, Eloi Jani, Dinesh Voicu, Sébastian Ou, Phalla Cardiovasc Ultrasound Case Report BACKGROUND: Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction, with secondary atrial pressure elevation, is a well-known concept. On the contrary, effect of left atrial compliance on pulmonary pressure is rarely considered. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the echocardiographic case of a 9-year-old child who presented severe rheumatic mitral valve regurgitation with a giant left atrium, in contrast to a normal artery pulmonary pressure, testifying of the high left atrial compliance. CONCLUSION: Left atrial compliance is an important determinant of symptoms and pulmonary artery pressure in mitral valve disease. BioMed Central 2006-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC1557539/ /pubmed/16901350 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-4-31 Text en Copyright © 2006 Marijon et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Marijon, Eloi
Jani, Dinesh
Voicu, Sébastian
Ou, Phalla
Effect of left atrial compliance on pulmonary artery pressure: a case report
title Effect of left atrial compliance on pulmonary artery pressure: a case report
title_full Effect of left atrial compliance on pulmonary artery pressure: a case report
title_fullStr Effect of left atrial compliance on pulmonary artery pressure: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Effect of left atrial compliance on pulmonary artery pressure: a case report
title_short Effect of left atrial compliance on pulmonary artery pressure: a case report
title_sort effect of left atrial compliance on pulmonary artery pressure: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1557539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16901350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-4-31
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