Simple left atrial reduction in giant left atrium accompanying mitral stenosis

Ahmet Coşkun Özdemir; Bilgin Emrecan

doi:10.5114/kitp.2012.32688

eISSN: 1897-4252
ISSN: 1731-5530

Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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abstract:

Simple left atrial reduction in giant left atrium accompanying mitral stenosis

Ahmet Coşkun Özdemir

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Bilgin Emrecan

Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 2012; 9 (4): 474–476

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2012.32688

Online publish date: 2013/01/14

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A patient with giant left atrium due to rheumatic mitral valve disease with spontaneous echocardiographic contrast in the giant left atrium is presented in this case report. The left atrial diameter reduction from dimensions of 118 × 104 mm to 80 × 77 mm was attained by excision of two-centimeter wide strips of left atrium on both sides by widely plicating the left atrial appendage from the inside with running polypropylene sutures. Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast disappeared in the postoperative echocardiographic control. The patient had uneventful recovery in the postoperative period and was discharged on the fifth day after the operation.

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Simple left atrial reduction in giant left atrium accompanying mitral stenosis

Ahmet Coşkun Özdemir , Bilgin Emrecan

heart atria, surgery

Ahmet Coşkun Özdemir

,

Bilgin Emrecan