<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.2d1 20170631//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"> <ArticleSet> <Article> <Journal> <PublisherName>jmedicalcasereports</PublisherName> <JournalTitle>Frontiers in Medical Case Reports</JournalTitle> <PISSN>I</PISSN> <EISSN>S</EISSN> <Volume-Issue>Volume 2; Issue 1</Volume-Issue> <PartNumber/> <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic> <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage> <Season>(Jan-Feb, 2021)</Season> <SpecialIssue>N</SpecialIssue> <SupplementaryIssue>N</SupplementaryIssue> <IssueOA>Y</IssueOA> <PubDate> <Year>-0001</Year> <Month>11</Month> <Day>30</Day> </PubDate> <ArticleType>Medical Case Reports</ArticleType> <ArticleTitle>Atrial Septal Aneurysm and Intermittent Atrio -Ventricular Block: A Case Report and Literature Review</ArticleTitle> <SubTitle/> <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage> <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA> <FirstPage>1</FirstPage> <LastPage>6</LastPage> <AuthorList> <Author> <FirstName>Isaac Kofi</FirstName> <LastName>Owusu</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> <FirstName>Yaw Amo</FirstName> <LastName>Wiafe</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> </Author> </AuthorList> <DOI/> <Abstract>Atrial Septal Aneurysm (ASA) can be congenital or acquired, and rarely reported in sub-Saharan African population. A number of studies have reported an association between ASA and cardiac arrhythmias; few studies have reported on association of ASA and cardiac conduction abnormalities. We report a case of ASA and intermittent atrio-ventricular (AV) block were detected on echocardiography and 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiography in a 65-year-old woman who presented with recurrent palpitations. This case report shows that ASA may not be as rare in sub-Saharan African populations as it is thought. More echocardiographic studies on ASA are needed to understand the prevalence and the impact of ASA in these populations.</Abstract> <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage> <Keywords>Atrial Septal Aneurysm,Conduction Disorder,Atrioventricular Block,Ghana</Keywords> <URLs> <Abstract>https://www.jmedicalcasereports.org/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=9340&title=Atrial Septal Aneurysm and Intermittent Atrio -Ventricular Block: A Case Report and Literature Review</Abstract> </URLs> <References> <ReferencesarticleTitle>References</ReferencesarticleTitle> <ReferencesfirstPage>16</ReferencesfirstPage> <ReferenceslastPage>19</ReferenceslastPage> <References>Silvestry FE, Cohen MS, Armsby LB, Burkule NJ, Fleishman CE, Hijazi ZM, Lang RM, Rome JJ, Wang Y. Guidelines for the echocardiographic assessment of atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale: from the American Society of Echocardiography and Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. 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