Adult ; Heart Atria ; pathology ; Heart Neoplasms ; pathology ; Humans ; Male

A left atrial aneurysm is a very rare cardiac anomaly that usually develops in the left atrial appendage. It usually develops congenitally, and has a risk of life-threatening complications. Here, we report a case of a growing aneurysm of the left atrium that was incidentally found in a 42-yr-old woman. Eighteen years prior, an abnormal cardiomegaly was found on a chest radiography for a pre-operative study. The chest radiography at this time demonstrated a more prominent cardiomegaly than the previous radiography findings. The left atrial aneurysm was diagnosed by echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. Although asymptomatic, she underwent a successful surgical excision to allay the possibilities of rupture, arrhythmia, heart failure, or thromboembolism. The surgical findings demonstrated an 8 x 15 cm sized saccular aneurysm at the left atrial appendage, and the pathologic findings showed three myocardial layers. The patient has been asymptomatic during the 15 months of follow-up. In conclusion, a congenital left atrial aneurysm can grow with time, even in asymptomatic cases, and an aneurysmectomy is a curative treatment, which can eliminate the potential complications.
Adult ; Echocardiography ; Female ; Heart Aneurysm/congenital* ; Heart Aneurysm/pathology* ; Heart Aneurysm/surgery ; Heart Aneurysm/ultrasonography ; Heart Atria/pathology* ; Heart Atria/surgery ; Heart Atria/ultrasonography ; Human

Adult ; Heart Aneurysm ; congenital ; Heart Atria ; pathology ; Humans ; Male

It is well known that there is close relation of the left atrial pathology to atrial fibrillation(AF) in patients with mitral valvular disease. To evaluate such relation is existed or not in the right atrium, the right atrial wall biopsy was performed in 31 patients with mitral valvular disease during valve surgery. The specimens obtained were interpretated by the pathologist who had no information about the patients. The specimens were graded according to severity of morphological change. In Grade I, the atrial myocardium is degenerated and has moderate fibrosis in it. Grade II shows the atrial myocardial layer of the atrium and severe degenerated with pre and postoperative heart rhythm. Four patients had Grade I change and 3 patients among them had pre and postoperative AF. Eleven patients had Grade III changes and 9 among them had pre and postoperative AF. The results show there is strong tendency that the patients with pre and postopeative AF had Grade III change in the right atrium and the relation of the right atrial pathology to AF is same as that of the left atrium.
Atrial Fibrillation* ; Biopsy ; Fibrosis ; Heart ; Heart Atria ; Humans ; Myocardium ; Pathology*

Aged ; Female ; Heart Atria ; pathology ; Humans ; Middle Aged

Humans ; Heart Atria ; Biopsy ; Surgical Instruments ; Catheters ; Lymphoma/pathology*

OBJECTIVE: Identifying Atrial Ventricular Hypertrophy Electrocardiogram (AVH ECG)and diagnosing the classification of theirs automatically. METHODS: The ECG data used in this experiment was collected from the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University. CNN are combined with conventional methods and a 10 layers of one dimensional CNN are created in this experiment to extract the features of ECG signals automatically and achieve the function of classifying. ROC, sensitivity and F1-score are used here to evaluate the effects of the model. RESULTS: In the experiment of identifying AVH ECG, the AUC of test dataset is 0.991, while in the experiment of classifying AVH ECG, the maximal F1-score can reach 0.992. CONCLUSIONS The CNN model created in this experiment can achieve the auxiliary diagnosis of AVH ECG.
China ; Electrocardiography ; Heart Atria/pathology* ; Humans ; Hypertrophy ; Neural Networks, Computer

Heart Atria ; pathology ; Heart Neoplasms ; pathology ; Humans ; Male ; Mesenchymoma ; pathology ; Middle Aged

Aged ; Female ; Heart Atria ; parasitology ; pathology ; Heart Neoplasms ; diagnosis ; pathology ; Humans ; Myxoma ; diagnosis ; pathology

Female ; Heart Atria ; pathology ; Heart Neoplasms ; pathology ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Neoplasms, Multiple Primary ; pathology ; Sarcoma ; pathology ; Tonsillar Neoplasms ; pathology