Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Detect Dilated Coronary Sinus in Adults
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Affiliations
- Consultant critical care medicine, Internal medicine department, Ahmadi hospital Kuwait.
- 2Critical care Unit, Ahmadi hospital, Kuwait oil company Kuwait.
- 3Assistant Professor, faculty of medicine, Kuwait university Kuwait.
- 4Team leader internal medicine and cardiologist, Ahmadi hospital, Kuwait oil company Kuwait.
Abstract
Detecting dilated coronary sinus when assessing patients in an acute emergency with point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is important for differential diagnosis, including the detection of persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC) and right ventricular dysfunction. Cardiac POCUS with agitated saline injections through the left and right antecubital veins is a simple bedside test to make the diagnosis. We present a 42-year-old woman with first-time rapid atrial flutter in whom POCUS confirmed the presence of dilated coronary sinus and PLSVC.
Keywords: arrhythmia; echocardiography.
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