Tuesday 1 December 2015

Left atrial enlargement 

Enlarged left atrium moves to right and back causing  double density along right heart border, lateral displacement of the pulmonary veins making them prominent, splaying of carina and indenting the anterior wall of lower 1/3rd of thoracic esophagus.

Causes-

  • Mitral stenosis
  • Left ventricular failure
  • congenital heart disease-PDA,VSD

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