Huge left atrial appendage aneurysm revealed by chronic hiccups.

J Saudi Heart Assoc

Department of Cardiology, Mohammed V Military Hospital, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.

Published: October 2017

Left atrial appendage (LAA) aneurysm is an extremely rare anomaly. So far, less than one hundred cases only have been reported worldwide. Revelation modes are dominated by complications such as arrhythmias and thromboembolic events. We herein report a pediatric case of huge congenital LAA aneurysm with an original revelation mode that has never been described before in medical literature.

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