A rare case of cor triatriatum was diagnosed in a 34-year-old woman using transoesophageal echocardiography after initial transthoracic echocardiography findings suggested right heart abnormalities.

17-year-old Rima Pathak suffered from a rare congenital heart defect. The girl suffers from cor triatriatum, in which the patient is born with five chambers in the heart instead of the normal four.

A very rare condition (with an incidence of 0.004% in the general population and 0.1 to 0.4% of all congenital heart anomalies), Cor triatriatum can be sometimes detected as an incidental finding in ...