Guzmán-Sánchez CM, Segovia-Juárez A, Flores-Salinas E, Marín-Solís B, Villalpando-Mendoza E, Arreola-Torres R

Language: Spanish
References: 7
Page: 90-92
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ABSTRACT

A 70 years old woman presents to the emergency room with progressive exercise disnea, on examination we found two systolic murmurs, from mitral and tricuspid origin, with two-dimensional trastoracic and trasesophagic echo we confirm the diagnosis and also found Cor triatriatum sinester, with a communication orifice between the inlet and outlet chamber of the left atrium of 0.7 cm², we send her to surgical resection of the membrane.

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