Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J. 2020 Nov;20(4):e394-e396. doi: 10.18295/squmj.2020.20.04.019. Epub 2020 Dec 21.
Right atrial diverticulum is a very rare anomaly. It is an outpouching arising from the right atrial free wall. Clinical presentations vary widely but some cases are associated with supraventricular tachycardia and atrial flutter/fibrillation. The incidence/prevalence of this anomaly is not available because only a few cases have been reported. We report a 38-year-old female patient who presented to the Heart Clinic, Tehran, Iran in 2019 with a history of dyspnea and chest pain. Electrocardiography revealed left bundle branch block. Following a magnetic resonance imaging study, the patient was diagnosed with a right atrial diverticulum. She underwent surgical resection of the diverticulum. The post-operative course was uneventful and no recurrence of the arrhythmia was detected during the six months of follow-up. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this combination has not been described in the literature.
右房憩室是一种非常罕见的异常。它是右心房游离壁的向外膨出。临床表现差异很大,但有些病例与室上性心动过速、房扑/房颤有关。由于仅报道了少数病例,因此该异常的发生率/患病率尚不清楚。我们报告了一名 38 岁女性患者,她于 2019 年在伊朗德黑兰的心脏诊所就诊,主诉呼吸困难和胸痛。心电图显示左束支传导阻滞。磁共振成像研究后,患者被诊断为右房憩室。她接受了憩室切除术。术后情况良好,在 6 个月的随访中未发现心律失常复发。据作者所知,这种组合在文献中尚未描述。