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This patient with severe volume overload can be seen to have a small pericardial effusion and a remarkably dilated left atrium. The diameter of the LA is more than twice that of the aorta or the right ventricular outflow track. The left ventricle can be seen to have mildly impaired systolic function, but the volume overload in this case was multifactorial.