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

Serdar Sevimli; Fuat Gundogdu; Enbiya Aksakal; Sakir Arslan; Yekta Gurlertop; Huseyin Senocak

doi:10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00511.x

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

Echocardiography. 2007 Oct;24(9):987-90. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00511.x.

Authors

Serdar Sevimli¹, Fuat Gundogdu, Enbiya Aksakal, Sakir Arslan, Yekta Gurlertop, Huseyin Senocak

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiology, Atatürk University Medical School, 25050 Erzurum, Turkey. drserdarsevimli@hotmail.com

PMID: 17894579
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00511.x

Abstract

Atrial appendage aneurysms are extremely rare entities in cardiology practice. There are reports of solitary left and right atrial appendage aneurysms in the literature. A case of biatrial appendages aneurysms is reported here. This is the first report of such an anomaly.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Atrial Appendage / diagnostic imaging*
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography, Doppler
Heart Aneurysm / congenital
Heart Aneurysm / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Male