Case Report: The woman with the big heart-an imaging-guided attempt of surgical reduction
Katharina Huenges1, Patrick Langguth2, Christina Grothusen1,3
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, UKSH Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
|February 12, 2024
Abstract:
In a female patient with acute cardiac decompensation, an auxiliary finding of a giant left atrium emerged. The surgical therapy of the atrial reduction, in addition to a mitral valve replacement and a coronary artery bypass grafting, is hereby presented.


