{"id":5138,"date":"2010-09-01T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiophile.org\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2023-10-24T07:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T02:12:51","slug":"gross-cardiomegaly-on-cxr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/gross-cardiomegaly-on-cxr\/","title":{"rendered":"Gross Cardiomegaly on Chest X-ray PA View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pNq6-Jc5FLw?si=Jcw0jJojxpbgvYzV\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Gross Cardiomegaly on Chest X-ray PA View<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36768\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36768\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36768 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Gross-cardiomegaly-on-CXR.png\" alt=\"Gross cardiomegaly on CXR\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1222\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gross cardiomegaly on CXR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Have a look at this Chest X-ray PA view and try to make out the findings and their interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>Gross cardiomegaly on Chest X-ray PA view, with gross right atrial enlargement evidenced by the shift of the right border very much into the right hemithorax. Main pulmonary artery and right pulmonary artery shadows are also prominent. Clinically and echocardiographically there was severe mitral and tricuspid regurgitation and pulmonary hypertension. Though similar enlargement of the cardiac silhouette could be noted in a large pericardial effusion, the bulges along the contour are not seen in massive pericardial effusion.\u00a0 Elevated left bronchial shadow and a filling of the left atrial appendage region on the left border indicate associated left atrial enlargement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36771\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36771\" src=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Gross-cardiomegaly-on-CXR-Annotated.png\" alt=\"Gross cardiomegaly on CXR - Annotated\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1212\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gross cardiomegaly on CXR &#8211; Annotated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>RA: Right atrium; RPA: Right pulmonary artery; MPA: Main pulmonary artery; LAA: Left atrial appendage; Elevated LB: Elevated left bronchus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gross cardiomegaly on CXR with gross right atrial enlargement evidenced by the shift of the right border very much into the right hemithorax. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiology-x-ray"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gross cardiomegaly on CXR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gross cardiomegaly on CXR with gross right atrial enlargement evidenced by the shift of the right border very much into the right hemithorax.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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