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Accessory Left Ventricle: A Mistaken Case of Ventricular Septal Defect!

Physical examination is becoming a lost art. We describe a case of a patient who was referred to us with an initial diagnosis of ventricular septal defect. Discordance between imaging findings and the physical examination led to a diagnosis of an accessory left ventricle, a rare but benign congenita...

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Autores principales: Chaudhari, Sameer S., Madan, Pankaj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.04.026
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description Physical examination is becoming a lost art. We describe a case of a patient who was referred to us with an initial diagnosis of ventricular septal defect. Discordance between imaging findings and the physical examination led to a diagnosis of an accessory left ventricle, a rare but benign congenital cardiac condition. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)
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spelling pubmed-83112772021-07-26 Accessory Left Ventricle: A Mistaken Case of Ventricular Septal Defect! Chaudhari, Sameer S. Madan, Pankaj JACC Case Rep Mini-Focus Issue: Imaging Physical examination is becoming a lost art. We describe a case of a patient who was referred to us with an initial diagnosis of ventricular septal defect. Discordance between imaging findings and the physical examination led to a diagnosis of an accessory left ventricle, a rare but benign congenital cardiac condition. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.) Elsevier 2021-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8311277/ /pubmed/34317665 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.04.026 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Accessory Left Ventricle: A Mistaken Case of Ventricular Septal Defect!
title Accessory Left Ventricle: A Mistaken Case of Ventricular Septal Defect!
title_full Accessory Left Ventricle: A Mistaken Case of Ventricular Septal Defect!
title_fullStr Accessory Left Ventricle: A Mistaken Case of Ventricular Septal Defect!
title_full_unstemmed Accessory Left Ventricle: A Mistaken Case of Ventricular Septal Defect!
title_short Accessory Left Ventricle: A Mistaken Case of Ventricular Septal Defect!
title_sort accessory left ventricle: a mistaken case of ventricular septal defect!
topic Mini-Focus Issue: Imaging
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.04.026
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