A giant left atrial appendage aneurysm with a large pinball-like thrombus in a 2 year old

Abstract

Congenital left atrial appendage aneurysm is very rare. We describe a giant left atrial appendage aneurysm with a pinball-like mobile thrombus in a 2-year-old child with cardioembolic stroke. Patient underwent successful surgical resection of the aneurysm.

Keywords

• Cardioembolic stroke
• left atrial appendage aneurysm
• thrombus