title: Giant right atrial aneurysm presenting as right heart failure.
abstract: Idiopathic aneurysmal dilatations of the right atrium are rare anomalies. We report one such case of a young man presenting with fatigue, abdominal distension, pedal oedema, unremarkable cardiac examination except for raised jugular venous pressure, an electrocardiogram showing normal sinus rhythm with right bundle-branch block, and an radiograph of the chest showing cardiomegaly. The echocardiographic examination revealed a giant right atrium with low pressure tricuspid regurgitation. The computed tomography confirmed the findings of two-dimensional echocardiography. He was put on medical treatment and remained symptomatically controlled on follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, CSM Medical University, Lucknow, India. vnairan@yahoo.com
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Narain
authors.forename: Aniket
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Puri
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sethi
authors.forename: Pallavi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Aga
authors.forename: Suresh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Behera
authors.forename: Naveed
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Saran
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography