Population
1 patient, 68-year-old female with severe mitral regurgitation and an associated left atrial diverticulum.
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
8 months
Authors
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Left atrial diverticulum may resolve after mitral regurgitation correction; hypothesis-generating for pathogenesis and requires confirmation.
Surgical correction of severe mitral regurgitation led to the spontaneous disappearance of an associated left atrial diverticulum, suggesting the regurgitation may have played a role in its development.
Terada et al. (2000) studied this question.
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