Gonzalez Lengua Carlos Andres, Rioboo Leston Lucia, Hecht Harvey S, Jacobi Adam
Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA.
Cardiology department, Hospital Meixoeiro, Vigo, Spain.
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr. 2015 Jul-Aug;9(4):365-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2015.03.006. Epub 2015 Mar 25.
A 56-year-old man with a history of complex atrial-septal defect repair, atrial fibrillation, and severe mitral regurgitation presented with progressive shortness of breath. A cardiac CT examination was done as part of a preoperative protocol before mitral valve replacement and it showed a severely enlarged left atrium and an anomalous hepatic vein draining into the left atrium. These findings were totally unsuspected and changed the patient management, highlighting the benefit of cardiac CT beyond the coronary finding.
