Left atrial hypertrophy

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• Causes

  • Mitral stenosis
  • Mitral regurgitation
  • Chronic constrictive pericarditis
  • Pneumonia
  • Hypertension
  • Left ventricular outflow obstruction
  • Aortic regurgitation

• Effects

  • Atrial fibrillation
  • Left atrial thrombosis
  • P mitrale
  • Ortner's cardiovocal syndrome

• Parents

  • Echocardiography sign

• Description

  • "less common in MR"