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The role of color-flow mapping in confirming the association of divided left atrium with an atrioventricular septal defect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Mario Cazzaniga*
Affiliation:
From the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hospital Ramóny Cajal, Madrid
Manuel Casanova Gómez
Affiliation:
From the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hospital Ramóny Cajal, Madrid
Walquiria Domínguez de Melo
Affiliation:
From the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hospital Ramóny Cajal, Madrid
*
Dr. Mario Cazzaniga, Cardiología Pediátrica, Hospital Ramóny Cajal, Carretera Colmenar Km 9.100, 28080 Madrid, Spain.

Summary

We describe the unusual association of a divided left atrium (cor triatriatum) with an atrioventricular septal defect with separate atrioventricular orifices in an eight-year-old asymptomatic girl. The diagnosis had been made by cross-sectional echocardiography combined with Doppler technology and color-flow mapping. These methods together demonstrate both the anatomic and hemodynamic findings.

Type
Brief Reports
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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