Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Charité University Medicine (Campus Virchow Klinikum), Berlin, 13353, Germany.
Department of Radiology, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Echocardiography. 2021 Jan;38(1):147-148. doi: 10.1111/echo.14949. Epub 2020 Dec 6.
We report a 55-year-old male patient with lone paroxysmal atrial fibrillation who underwent routine transesophageal echocardiography (TOE) at our institution. In a mid-esophageal 125° three-chamber angulation, a distinct thinning of the left atrial (LA) wall was observed, forming a 7 × 4 mm canal with only a small membrane separating the LA from the pericardial space. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging diagnosed a small LA diverticulum. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first manuscript describing detection of a small LA diverticulum via TOE.
我们报告了一例 55 岁男性孤立性阵发性心房颤动患者，在我院行常规经食管超声心动图（TOE）检查。在中食管 125°三腔角度，观察到左心房（LA）壁明显变薄，形成一个 7×4mm 的管腔，只有一小部分膜将 LA 与心包腔隔开。心脏磁共振成像诊断为小 LA 憩室。据我们所知，这是第一篇通过 TOE 描述检测小 LA 憩室的论文。
