Images in clinical medicine. Giant left atrium

A 59-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WITH A HISTORY OF RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE PREsented with an eight-month history of increasing ascites. Her condition was complicated by mitral stenosis, which had required a Bjork-Shiley mitral-valve replacement 20 years earlier. Chest radiography showed massive cardiomegaly (Pan...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 2004-09, Vol.351 (14), p.1437-1437
Hauptverfasser:	Tung, Roderick, DeSanctis, Roman
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Ascites - etiology Cardiomegaly - complications Cardiomegaly - diagnostic imaging Fatal Outcome Female Heart Atria - diagnostic imaging Humans Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute - complications Middle Aged Mitral Valve Stenosis - complications Rheumatic Heart Disease - complications Tomography, X-Ray Computed Ultrasonography
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Zusammenfassung:	A 59-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WITH A HISTORY OF RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE PREsented with an eight-month history of increasing ascites. Her condition was complicated by mitral stenosis, which had required a Bjork-Shiley mitral-valve replacement 20 years earlier. Chest radiography showed massive cardiomegaly (Panels A and B).
ISSN:	0028-4793 1533-4406
DOI:	10.1056/NEJMicm030599