A rare congenital anomaly: Biatrial appendage aneurysm with atrial and ventricular septal defect

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 987-990

  Sevimli, Serdar ^a   Gundogdu, Fuat ^a   Aksakal, Enbiya ^a   Arslan, Sakir ^a   Gurlertop, Yekta ^a   Senocak, Huseyin ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Echocardiography; Left atrial appendage; Right atrial appendage

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BIATRIAL APPENDAGE ANEURYSM; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 34748820547     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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