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Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2012 ![Figure][1] [![Graphic][3] ][3][![Graphic][4] ][4][![Graphic][5] ][5] A 67-year-old woman with a history of rheumatic heart disease presented with dyspnea. She had previously refused the recommended surgery and underwent medical treatment.
Mehmet Özkan, Alper Ozkan, Altug Tuncer
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The arch-like plasty of the left atrium in correction of a mitral valve failure
Клінічна хірургія, 2021 Objective. Studying the possibilities of the method of the left atrium arch-like plasty while correcting of a mitral failure in combination with the left atrium dilatation. Materials and methods.
V. V. Popov +2 more
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Automatically Segmenting the Left Atrium from Cardiac Images Using Successive 3D U-Nets and a Contour Loss [PDF]
STACOM@MICCAI, 2018 Radiological imaging offers effective measurement of anatomy, which is useful in disease diagnosis and assessment. Previous study has shown that the left atrial wall remodeling can provide information to predict treatment outcome in atrial fibrillation ...
Shuman Jia +7 more
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Heart Views, 2012 Introduction: Enlarged left atrium predicts outcomes in patients with heart failure, atrial fibrillation and stroke. Left atrial volume especially when corrected for body size, is a more accurate representation of true LA size.
Monika Maheshwari +2 more
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Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2012 The pulmonary vein is known as an important source of ectopic beats, initiating frequent paroxysms of atrial fibrillation. We compared effects of the class Ic antiarrhythmic drug pilsicainide on the electrophysiological parameters in the isolated ...
Akira Takahara +5 more
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Normal echocardiographic measurements in a Turkish population: The Healthy Heart ECHO-TR Trial
Anatolian Journal of Cardiology, 2019 Objective: Normal reference values for the cardiac chambers are widely based on cohorts from European or American populations. In this study, we aimed to obtain normal echocardiographic measurements of healthy Turkish volunteers to reveal the age, gender,
Özgen Şafak +21 more
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CardiacNET: Segmentation of Left Atrium and Proximal Pulmonary Veins from MRI Using Multi-view CNN [PDF]
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2017 Anatomical and biophysical modeling of left atrium (LA) and proximal pulmonary veins (PPVs) is important for clinical management of several cardiac diseases.
Aliasghar Mortazi +4 more
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An immunohistochemical analysis of tissue thrombin expression in the human atria. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 OBJECTIVE: Thrombin, the final coagulation product of the coagulation cascade, has been demonstrated to have many physiological effects, including pro-fibrotic actions via protease-activated receptor (PAR)-1.
Keiichi Ito +13 more
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A new surgical technique for left atrial reduction in giant left atriumCentral MessagePerspective
JTCVS Techniques, 2023 Objective: The study objective was to evaluate the safety and clinical and echocardiographic outcomes of a new surgical technique in adult patients diagnosed with a giant left atrium.
Josías C. Ríos-Ortega, MD +9 more
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Massive calcification of giant left atrium in a rheumatic mitral stenosis patient: A case report
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2019 Giant left atrium is a condition characterized by an extreme enlargement of the left atrium with a diameter more than 80 mm and it is usually associated with long standing rheumatic mitral valve disease.
Yong Luo +3 more
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