Open AccessLeft atrial band: A rare congenital anomaly
Author(s) -
Kevin Liou,
Manuja Premaratne,
Gita Mathur
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
annals of cardiac anaesthesia/annals of cardiac anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 0974-5181
pISSN - 0971-9784
DOI - 10.4103/0971-9784.142077
Subject(s) - medicine , anomaly (physics) , cardiology , transesophageal echocardiogram , physics , condensed matter physics
Left atrial fibromuscular band is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly. We present a patient with an incidental finding of left atrial band on an intra-operative transesophageal echocardiogram and characterize its appearance on two-dimensional and three-dimensional echocardiograms.