[HSF] Giant LA

[Nasser F. Abou'Seada]

all of your patients ??? ... when it rains ...  !!
valvular patients ??? 

we have seen many of these cases ... several years ago ....  almost all due
to Giant LA secondary to tight MS ..... some cases of organic TR with huge
dilated RA presented with a similar CXR ... essentially biatrial enlargement
... .... 

incidentally .... hence my question to Prasanna about his preferred
technique in L atriorrhaphy 

NFA

> From: Michael Firstenberg
> hard to tell from the picture, but I kind of looks like all of the
patients
> that I have been seeing lately.
> 
> -michael
> 
> Cardiovocal syndrome???
>    Prasanna - are you making this stuff up?
> 
> 
> On 11/20/06, prasannasimha <prasannasimha at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That was a giant LA in a patient with MR with  Cardiovocal syndrome
> > (Ortner's Syndrome)
> > This is his X Ray immediately post op after an MVR + Electocautery Maze
> > + Kawazoe procedure (Left atrial plication reduction plasty ) done on
> > the 15th.
> >
> > Prasanna
> >
> > Michael Kuiper wrote:
> > > not immediately.... it may be the heart...
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "prasannasimha"
> > > <prasannasimha at gmail.com>
> > > To: <OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com>; "ccm" <ccm-l at ccm-l.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 6:43 PM
> > > Subject: ccmlquiz20/11/2006
> > >
> > >
> > >> Will you put a chest tube in this patient ?
> > >>
> > >> Prasanna
> > >>
> > >>
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