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Case Reports
. 2018;154(6):727-728.
doi: 10.24875/GMM.18004398.

[Cardiomegalia gigante]

[Article in Spanish]
Luisa María Charco-Roca  1 , María Garví-López  1 , Lorena Moreno-De la Rosa  1
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[Cardiomegalia gigante]

[Article in Spanish]
Luisa María Charco-Roca et al. Gac Med Mex. 2018.
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Abstract
in English, Spanish

Eighty-year old woman with a medical history of arterial hypertension, rheumatic valvular heart disease with mitral and aortic valve replacement, chronic atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure dependent on domiciliary chronic oxygen for 17 daily hours. The reason for arrival to the hospital was a stroke of cardioembolic etiology.

Mujer de 80 años con antecedentes de hipertensión arterial, valvulopatía reumática con recambio valvular mitral y aórtica, fibrilación auricular crónica e insuficiencia cardiaca congestiva dependiente de oxígeno crónico domiciliario durante 17 horas diarias. El motivo de llegada al hospital fue ictus cerebral de etiología cardioembólica.

Keywords: Biatrial enlargement; Cardiomegalia; Cardiomegaly; Chest radiograph; Dilatación biauricular; Radiografía de tórax.

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