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  Euro Heart Congress 2020: Cor Triatriatum Sinister and Patent Ductus Arteriosus in a 23 year-old Filipino- Aila V. Velasco- Lorma Medical Center
  Author(s): Aila V. Velasco
  
  Cor triatriatum is one of the rarest cardiac disease or condition that involves the left atrium. It happens and represents only 0.1-0.4% of all congenital heart diseases. It can be illustrated or denoted as one of the atrium gets divided into two chambers by a fibromuscular membrane and in general appear on the left atrium. Cor triatriatum is considered as a result because of embryologic failure of the common pulmonary vein to become subsume into the left atrium during the fifth week of embryonic development.1 The insuffucient incorporation of the common pulmonary vein results into a obstructive membrane at junction of the common pulmonary vein and the left atrium. As a result it creates two separate chambers within the left atrium; the .. Read More»
  

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