Echocardiographic diagnosis of cor triatriatum

Bett, J.H.; Graff, R.F.; Stafford, E.G.; Dryburgh, L.

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 8(4): 428-430

1978


ISSN/ISBN: 0004-8291
PMID: 282859
Document Number: 136119
M-mode echocardiography displayed abnormal echoes in the left atrium and posterior to the mitral leaflets in a child with severe heart failure. Cor triatriatum was demonstrated by angiography and cured by surgical excision. Subsequent echo studies no longer showed the abnormal structure.

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