title: Giant left atrium--a case report.
abstract: A seventy-seven-year old woman, with mitral stenosis, presented with cardiomegaly evident on her chest roentgenogram. The cardiac enlargement was due to a giant left atrium that distorted the cardiac structures. An echocardiogram and a first-pass nuclear angiogram were able to delineate the huge left atrium.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, New York.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Gould
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Betzu
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Patel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications; D011859:Radiography