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==Differential Diagnosis of Causes of Left Atrial Enlargement== | ==Differential Diagnosis of Causes of Left Atrial Enlargement== | ||
===In alphabetical Order=== | ===In alphabetical Order=== | ||
*[[Ankylosing spondylitis]] | *[[Ankylosing spondylitis]] | ||
*[[Aortic regurgitation]] | *[[Aortic regurgitation]] | ||
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*[[Atrial fibrillation]] | *[[Atrial fibrillation]] | ||
*[[Atrial septal defect]] | *[[Atrial septal defect]] | ||
*[[Chronic alcoholism]]<ref>Kabir J. Singh, Beth Cohen, Bee Ya Na, Mary A. Whooley, and Nelson B. Schiller. Predictors Of Increasing Left Atrial Volume Over Five Years In Coronary Artery Disease Patients: Results From The Heart And Soul Study. J.Am.Coll.Cardiol.2010;55;A91.E864 [http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/reprint/55/10_MeetingAbstracts/A91.E864.pdf]</ref> | |||
*[[Coarctation of the aorta]] | *[[Coarctation of the aorta]] | ||
*[[Congestive heart failure]] | *[[Congestive heart failure]] | ||
Revision as of 15:40, 17 April 2012
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [2]; Associate Editor(s)-In-Chief: Varun Kumar, M.B.B.S. [3]
Differential Diagnosis of Causes of Left Atrial Enlargement
In alphabetical Order
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Aortic regurgitation
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrial septal defect
- Chronic alcoholism[1]
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Congestive heart failure
- Emphysema
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypercholesterolemia accelerates the stenotic process of the valves via calcification
- Hypoplasia of mitral valve annulus which is a part of the spectrum of hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- Infective endocarditis
- Ischemic mitral regurgitation
- Left atrial myxoma
- Left bundle branch block
- Mitral regurgitation
- Mitral stenosis
- Mitral valve annular calcification
- Mitral valve commissural fusion
- Mitral valve prolapse
- Obesity
- Papillary muscle rupture
- Parachute mitral valve
- Pneumonia
- Prosthetic mitral valve
- Rheumatic heart disease
- Supra-valve mitral membrane
- Systemic hypertension
- Thickened chordae tendinae
- Thrombus (ball valve thrombus) in left atrium