Left atrial appendage stenosis.
Narrowing at the mouth of the left atrial appendage has been reported after partial surgical ligation of the appendage. This report describes a patient, without prior cardiac surgery, who had an anatomic narrowing at the opening of the left atrial appendage demonstrated by 2-dimensional, Doppler, and color Doppler echocardiography.
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Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Laboratories, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, The University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
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D000368:Aged; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans