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...

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Autores principales: Park, Kyungil, Kim, Hyung-Kwan, Park, Young-Bae
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Cardiology 2010
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Images in Cardiovascular Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3008835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21217941
http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2010.40.11.609
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Park, Young-Bae
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description 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 should not delay corrective surgery for severe mitral stenosis solely on account of a huge LA.
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spelling pubmed-30088352011-01-07 A Giant Left Atrium in Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Park, Kyungil Kim, Hyung-Kwan Park, Young-Bae Korean Circ J Images in Cardiovascular Medicine 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 should not delay corrective surgery for severe mitral stenosis solely on account of a huge LA. The Korean Society of Cardiology 2010-11 2010-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3008835/ /pubmed/21217941 http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2010.40.11.609 Text en Copyright © 2010 The Korean Society of Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Images in Cardiovascular Medicine
Park, Kyungil
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Park, Young-Bae
A Giant Left Atrium in Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis
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title_full A Giant Left Atrium in Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis
title_fullStr A Giant Left Atrium in Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis
title_full_unstemmed A Giant Left Atrium in Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis
title_short A Giant Left Atrium in Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis
title_sort giant left atrium in rheumatic mitral stenosis
topic Images in Cardiovascular Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3008835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21217941
http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2010.40.11.609
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