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A 35-year-old male with rheumatic heart disease and severe mitral stenosis was found to have a giant left atrium measuring 17.7 cm x 16.1 cm, the third largest reported in the world.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report documents an exceptionally rare giant left atrium (17.7 cm x 16.1 cm) in a patient with chronic rheumatic valvular heart disease.
Requires clinical awareness in rheumatic mitral stenosis; extends sparse case reports on giant left atrium but leaves management open.
A 35 year old male with known rheumatic heart disease presented to the emergency department with progressively increasing breathlessness.Two dimensional echocardiography followed by CECT chest revealed giant left atrium (17.7cmx16.1cm).The largest left atrium described so far in literature is 18.7cm,reported by Mehmet et al and from India is 18.4cmx11cmx10.2cm.So this is third largest in world and second largest in India.
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A 2017 study conducted a case report in Rheumatic heart disease, severe mitral stenosis, giant left atrium (n=1). Giant left atrium was evaluated on Size of left atrium. A 35-year-old male with rheumatic heart disease and severe mitral stenosis was found to have a giant left atrium measuring 17.7 cm x 16.1 cm, the third largest reported in the world.
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