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Images in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Retained Intracardiac Air Mimicking Left Atrial Mass by Transesophageal Echocardiography

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Orihashi, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hiroshima University Hospital, Kasumi 1-2-3, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan (Email: orichan@hiroshima-u.ac.jp).

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A 74-year-old woman patient with mitral stenosis, tricuspid regurgitation, and chronic atrial fibrillation underwent mitral valve replacement with a bioprosthetic valve, tricuspid annuloplasty, and pulmonary vein box isolation. When she was weaned from cardiopulmonary bypass, transesophageal echocardiography showed an oval-shaped mass in the left atrium (Fig 1A; LA = left atrium). It was 13 x . . . [Full Text of this Article]