An incidentally diagnosed asymptomatic congenital left atrial appendage aneurysm

Işıl Yıldırım,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.8206

Işıl Yıldırım¹, Murat Şahin¹, Ahmet Aydın², Mustafa Yılmaz², Sema Özer¹

¹Departments of Pediatric Health and Diseases, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Faculty of Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
²Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Faculty of Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.8206

Left atrial appendage aneurysm is a rare cardiac anomaly. It can be congenital in origin or acquired secondary to inflammatory or degenerative processes. As it may cause potentially lethal arrhythmias or thrombi, surgical treatment is needed immediately after the diagnosis. In this article, we report a case of an asymptomatic three-year-old boy with a congenital left atrial appendage aneurysm. The patient was successfully treated with surgical resection of the aneurysm.

Keywords : Child; congenital; left atrial aneurysm

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