Superior vena caval obstruction by lipomatous hypertrophy of the right atrium

Clinical Cardiology - Tập 10 Số 10 - Trang 609-610 - 1987
Richard McNamara1, Alan Taylor2, Bernard J. Panner2
1Department of Medicine, Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York.
2Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, U.S.A.

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AbstractA structural abnormality was suspected when passage of a Swan‐Ganz catheter was obstructed at the distal superior vena cava (SVC). At autopsy, lipomatous hypertrophy of the right atrium markedly narrowed the lumen at the SVC‐right atrial junction.

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Clinical Cardiology

Tập 10 Số 10

609-610

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