A giant aneurysm of the left atrial appendage in childhood

Sertaç Haydin; Erkut Öztürk; Alper Güzeltaş; Ender Ödemiş; İhsan Bakır

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.8118

Sertaç Haydin¹, Erkut Öztürk², Alper Güzeltaş², Ender Ödemiş², İhsan Bakır¹

¹Departments of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, İstanbul Mehmet Akif Ersoy Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
²Departments of Pediatric Cardiology, İstanbul Mehmet Akif Ersoy Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.8118

Congenital aneurysm of the left atrial appendage is a very rare cardiac anomaly which can be accompanied with supraventricular rhythm disorders and life-threatening systemic thromboembolism. In this article, we present a six-year-old girl with a bulky mass of soft tissue density on the cardiac wall in chest X-ray which was adjacent to the left atrial appendage in two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography. The patient was diagnosed with the left atrial appendage aneurysm. Surgery was performed to eliminate potential complications. The patient was uneventful in the postoperative follow-up.

Keywords : Aneurysm; childhood; left atrial appendage; surgery

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