Left atrial appendage aneurysm: correlation of noninvasive with clinical and surgical findings: report of a case.
Congenital left atrial appendage aneurysm is rarely diagnosed on the basis of an abnormal cardiac silhouette. Patients with a left atrial appendage aneurysm often present with symptoms of systemic emboli or supraventricular arrhythmias. A patient with left atrial appendage aneurysm was diagnosed by correlation of two noninvasive techniques echocardiography and radionuclide scintiscanning. Angiography was confirmatory and aneurysmectomy was successfully performed.
D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006325:Heart Atria; D006339:Heart Rate; D006439:Hemodynamics; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging