Adult Cor Triatriatum Presenting as Cardioembolic Stroke
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Internal Medicine / Kyung-Jun Park, Il-Kwon Park, Jung-Ju Sir, Hyun-Tae Kim, Young-Il Park, Pei-Chuan Tsung, Jae-Myun Chung, Kyung-Il Park, Wook-Hyun Cho and Suk-Koo Choi
Summary points:
A 55-year-old previously healthy woman is referred to a cardiovascular center for further investigation into a recent embolic cerebral infarction. Medical history; physical, neurologic, and cardiac examinations; electrocardiogram; magnetic resonance angiography; carotid doppler ultrasound; and 2-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography are described; images provided. The authors discuss the rare case of cor triatriatum diagnosed in an adult and presenting as embolic stroke or arterial embolism.
Adult Cor Triatriatum Presenting as Cardioembolic Stroke
