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Chest, Vol 84, 306-308, Copyright © 1983 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Progressive extreme biatrial enlargement following mitral valve replacement

S Mahapatra, MJ Goldberg, JM Ryan, M Rubenfire and PN Cascade

Patients with mitral valve disease and extreme enlargement of the left atrium usually exhibit significant decrease in chamber size following corrective mitral valve surgery. We describe a patient in whom extreme right and left atrial enlargement developed, and progressed following mitral valve replacement, with no evidence of prosthetic valve malfunction or tricuspid valve disease.




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