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Giant interatrial septal aneurysm mimicking a right atrial tumor
H R Malaterre1, F Cohen, K Kallee
1Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Marseille, Hôpital de la Conception, France. hmalater@ap-hm.fr
International Journal of Cardiac Imaging
|November 14, 1998
Abstract:
We report the case of a patient with a giant interatrial septum aneurysm who was admitted to our hospital for analysis of palpitations. Transthoracic echocardiography was not contributive and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a small interatrial septal aneurysm. In our study, only transesophageal echocardiography provided the correct diagnosis, showing a giant interatrial septal aneurysm protruding far away into the right atrium and mimicking a right atrial cystic tumor.