title: Anomalous chord of the left atrium without involvement of the mitral valve.
abstract: An anomalous chord from the left side of the atrial septum to the left atrial free wall was incidentally noted on transthoracic echocardiography in a 14-year-old boy with vasovagal syncope. Previously reported cases of anomalous chords in the left atrium were associated with the mitral valve leaflets in all but two cases. This is the first reported case of an echocardiographic diagnosis of anomalous left atrial chord without insertion of the chord into the mitral valve.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA. ba2208@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Bhawna
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Arya
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Challenger
authors.forename: Wyman W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Lai
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002815:Chordae Tendineae / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019462:Syncope, Vasovagal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology