Mechanical Discordance between Left Atrium and Left Atrial Appendage

During standard transesophageal echocardiographic examinations in sinus rhythm (SR) patients, the left atrial appendage (LAA) is not routinely assessed with Doppler. Despite having a SR, it is still possible to have irregular activity in the LAA. This situation is even more important for SR patients...

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Autores principales: Khamooshian, Arash, Jeganthan, Jelliffe, Amador, Yannis, Laham, Roger J, Mahmood, Feroze, Matyal, Robina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5791500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29336402
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_90_17
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author Khamooshian, Arash
Jeganthan, Jelliffe
Amador, Yannis
Laham, Roger J
Mahmood, Feroze
Matyal, Robina
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description During standard transesophageal echocardiographic examinations in sinus rhythm (SR) patients, the left atrial appendage (LAA) is not routinely assessed with Doppler. Despite having a SR, it is still possible to have irregular activity in the LAA. This situation is even more important for SR patients where assessment of the left atrium is often foregone. We describe a case where we encountered this situation and briefly review how to assess the left atrium and its appendage in such a case scenario.
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spelling pubmed-57915002018-02-07 Mechanical Discordance between Left Atrium and Left Atrial Appendage Khamooshian, Arash Jeganthan, Jelliffe Amador, Yannis Laham, Roger J Mahmood, Feroze Matyal, Robina Ann Card Anaesth Case Report During standard transesophageal echocardiographic examinations in sinus rhythm (SR) patients, the left atrial appendage (LAA) is not routinely assessed with Doppler. Despite having a SR, it is still possible to have irregular activity in the LAA. This situation is even more important for SR patients where assessment of the left atrium is often foregone. We describe a case where we encountered this situation and briefly review how to assess the left atrium and its appendage in such a case scenario. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5791500/ /pubmed/29336402 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_90_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_short Mechanical Discordance between Left Atrium and Left Atrial Appendage
title_sort mechanical discordance between left atrium and left atrial appendage
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5791500/
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