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Medical treatment successfully controlled symptoms in a young man presenting with right heart failure due to a giant right atrial aneurysm.
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Medical management can provide symptomatic control in rare cases of idiopathic giant right atrial aneurysm presenting as right heart failure.
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Medical management may control symptoms in rare giant right atrial aneurysm; leaves open surgical timing and long-term outcomes.
Idiopathic aneurysmal dilatations of the right atrium are rare anomalies. We report one such case of a young man presenting with fatigue, abdominal distension, pedal oedema, unremarkable cardiac examination except for raised jugular venous pressure, an electrocardiogram showing normal sinus rhythm with right bundle-branch block, and an radiograph of the chest showing cardiomegaly. The echocardiographic examination revealed a giant right atrium with low pressure tricuspid regurgitation. The computed tomography confirmed the findings of two-dimensional echocardiography. He was put on medical treatment and remained symptomatically controlled on follow-up.
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Narain et al. (2012) conducted a case report in Giant right atrial aneurysm (n=1). Medical treatment was evaluated on Symptom control. Medical treatment successfully controlled symptoms in a young man presenting with right heart failure due to a giant right atrial aneurysm.
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