title: [Aneurysm of the interauricular septum].
abstract: In reference to three personal cases of interatrial septum aneurysm discovered on ultrasonography performed for the diagnosis of a cerebral embolism, the authors describe the positive diagnosis criteria, in mono- and bi-dimensional mode, of this abnormality, as well as related data obtained from catheterization, angiocardiography, and phonocardiography. This malformation, the frequency and pathogenesis of which still remain, today, difficult to evaluate, may be at the origin of complications, especially embolic migrations, systemic and also pulmonary, supraventricular rhythm disorders, interatrial shunt, reduced ventricular filling. Once established, the diagnosis is the subject of many controversies: if plain monitoring appears logical in asymptomatic forms, the occurrence of a systemic embolism makes it difficult to choose between surgical treatment and long-term anticoagulant therapy.
authors.affiliation: Service de Cardiologie, Centre Hospitalier, Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haziza
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Halphen
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Stoltz
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Leroy
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haïat
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D006346:Heart Septum; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010701:Phonocardiography; D011859:Radiography
vernacular_title: Anévrysme du septum interauriculaire.