Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum in a child with atrial tachycardia.
A 13-year-old girl who had been on home parenteral nutrition for 6 months has been presented with multifocal atrial tachycardia and atrial fibrillation. Echocardiography and multislice computed tomography showed fat accumulation on the interatrial septum. Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum has never been reported in children.
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey.
Ercan
E
Tutar
Kartal Koşuyolu Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.
Ömer
Ö
Çiftçi
Department of Pediatric Radiology, Ankara University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey.
Suat
S
Fitoz
Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, Ankara University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey.
Tanıl
T
Kendirli
Diyarbakır Children's Hospital, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
Çağlar
Ç
Ödek
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey.
Tayfun
T
Uçar
Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Ankara University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey.
Aydan
A
Kansu
CT; arrhythmia; echocardiography; interatrial septum; lipomatous hypertrophy