Mitral pseudostenosis due to a large left atrial myxoma
Konstantinos C Theodoropoulos
Giovanni Masoero
Gianpiero Pagnano
Nicola Walker
Alexandros Papachristidis
Mark J Monaghan
摘要:Myxomas are benign cardiac tumours that are mostly (75%) located in the left atrium,but they also can be found in the right atrium (15%-20%),in the right ventricle (4%)and in the left ventricle (3%).[1] A 71-year-old male presented to a district hospital with exertional dyspnea,orthopnea,postural dizziness and significant weight loss over the last year.He had no known previous cardiac history and from his medical history he had only hypertension and diabetes.A transthoracic echocardiogram showed a large mass in the left atrium (Figure 1A),otherwise the rest of the study was unremarkable.
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论文发表日期:2018-03-08
在线出版日期:2025-08-15(本平台首次上网日期,不代表文献的发表时间)
页数:2( 244-245 )
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老年心脏病学杂志(英文版)

老年心脏病学杂志(英文版)

ISSN:1671-5411
年,卷(期):2018,15(3)
所属栏目:LETTER TO THE EDITOR