COR-TRIATRIATUM IN A 70-YEAR-OLD WOMAN - ROLE OF TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AND DYNAMIC 3-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN DIAGNOSTIC-ASSESSMENT

Authors
TANTIBHEDHYANGKUL W GODOY I KARP R LANG RM
Citation
W. Tantibhedhyangkul et al., COR-TRIATRIATUM IN A 70-YEAR-OLD WOMAN - ROLE OF TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AND DYNAMIC 3-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN DIAGNOSTIC-ASSESSMENT, Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 11(8), 1998, pp. 837-840
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography → ACNP
ISSN journal
08947317
Volume
11
Issue
8
Year of publication
1998
Pages
837 - 840
Database
ISI
SICI code
0894-7317(1998)11:8<837:CIA7W->2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
In this report we describe a 70-year-old woman with unrecognized nonob structive cor triatriatum (CT). She had concomitant mitral regurgitati on and coronary artery disease. Diagnosis of CT and its hemodynamic as sessment were accomplished by transesophageal echocardiography. Dynami c three-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated multiple fenestratio ns in the left atrial membrane. Intraoperative findings confirmed the diagnostic accuracy of three-dimensional echocardiography. To our know ledge, this is the first case of CT that has anatomic correlation with three-dimensional echocardiography.