Congenital absence of left atrial appendage: A case report and literature review

Congenital absence of left atrial appendage (LAA) is an extremely rare entity. A 50-year-old man with no past cardiac history was admitted with symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF). Before subjecting him to direct current (DC) cardioversion, the patient underwent a transesophageal echocardiography (...

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Autores principales: Ghori, M.A., Alessandro, Salustri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4392346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25870508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsha.2014.11.004
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description Congenital absence of left atrial appendage (LAA) is an extremely rare entity. A 50-year-old man with no past cardiac history was admitted with symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF). Before subjecting him to direct current (DC) cardioversion, the patient underwent a transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) examination, but neither LAA nor a cardiac thrombus could be detected. Absence of both was confirmed by cardiac computer tomography (CT) and a cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. The patient reverted to sinus rhythm with an uneventful synchronized biphasic DC shock of 100 joules.
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spelling pubmed-43923462015-04-13 Congenital absence of left atrial appendage: A case report and literature review Ghori, M.A. Alessandro, Salustri J Saudi Heart Assoc Case Report Congenital absence of left atrial appendage (LAA) is an extremely rare entity. A 50-year-old man with no past cardiac history was admitted with symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF). Before subjecting him to direct current (DC) cardioversion, the patient underwent a transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) examination, but neither LAA nor a cardiac thrombus could be detected. Absence of both was confirmed by cardiac computer tomography (CT) and a cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. The patient reverted to sinus rhythm with an uneventful synchronized biphasic DC shock of 100 joules. Elsevier 2015-04 2014-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4392346/ /pubmed/25870508 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsha.2014.11.004 Text en © 2014 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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