title: Inferior sinus venosus defect associated with incomplete cor triatriatum dexter and patent foramen ovale.
abstract: Sinus venosus atrial septal defect (SVD) is a rare cardiac abnormality in adults. Particularly, the inferior type is difficult to depict by transthoracic echocardiography because of its infero-posterior location to the fossa ovalis. We describe the case of a 33-year-old woman whose chest X-ray taken during bronchopneumonia revealed a cardiomegaly. Further echocardiographic investigations showed an underlying inferior SVD, an incomplete cor triatriatum dexter and a large patent foramen ovale (PFO). The diagnosis was confirmed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) and during surgical repair.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. kessela@uhbs.ch
authors.forename: Arnheid
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kessel-Schaefer
authors.forename: Andre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Linka
authors.forename: Rene
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pretre
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Buser
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003310:Cor Triatriatum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014463:Ultrasonography