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- Title
Rare combination of bilateral divided atrial chambers and pulmonary vein stenosis with review of the literature.
- Authors
Al-Mousily, Faris; Baslaim, Ghassan; Kouatli, Amjad; Al-Ata, Jameel; Arfi, Amin M.
- Abstract
Introduction: The term cor triatriatum is used to describe a fibromuscular partition that divides an atrium into two compartments. It was first used by Borst in 1905, although the lesion had been described before by Church in 1868. Both described divided left atrial chamber (also referred to as cor triatriatum sinister). The incidence of the divided left atrial chamber among patients with congenital heart disease is reported at 0.1% and 0.4% in an autopsy study. Divided right atrial chamber – also referred to as cor triatriatum dexter – is even rarer to an extent that there is no reported incidence and only few hundred cases have been reported so far. A search through pubMed library revealed only 90 publications on humans, either under the term “dexter” or “dextrum”. We would like to report a new association of bilateral divided atrial chambers and pulmonary vein stenosis, with a review of the literature.
- Subjects
PULMONARY veins; CONGENITAL heart disease; AUTOPSY; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; VENOUS valves
- Publication
Cardiology in the Young, 2015, Vol 25, Issue 2, p218
- ISSN
1047-9511
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1047951114001073