Transoesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of cor triatriatum; incremental value of colour Doppler.
Cor triatriatum sinistrum is a rare congenital cardiac abnormality often accompanied by other malformations. Transthoracic echocardiography does not always define the membrane and associated abnormalities; so, transoesophageal colour Doppler echocardiography was used to visualize intra-atrial blood flow through the intra-atrial membrane in a patient in whom the membranous orifice could not be seen by precordial echocardiography. There was no anomalous pulmonary venous drainage or associated atrial septal defect.
Hoffmann
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Medical Clinic I, Klinikum Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany.
Lambertz
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Flachskampf
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Hanrath
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D000328:Adult; D003310:Cor Triatriatum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D004947:Esophagus; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans