Left Atrial Myxoma: A Great Masquerader with Multiple Clinical Faces – A Case Series
While syphilis and pulmonary embolism are well known with the eponym of “The Great Masquerader,” atrial myxoma should also be given the eponym due to its variable presentations and frequent misdiagnosis. Myxoma is the most common primary tumor of the adult heart, which is silent and is discovered in...
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| author | Mohamed Iliyas N. Swaminathan Gnanavelu Ganesan Venkatesan Sangareddi |
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| description | While syphilis and pulmonary embolism are well known with the eponym of “The Great Masquerader,” atrial myxoma should also be given the eponym due to its variable presentations and frequent misdiagnosis. Myxoma is the most common primary tumor of the adult heart, which is silent and is discovered incidentally. We would like to present three consecutive patients who attended our department with different symptomatologies over a time frame of 2 months. Later, all the three patients were found to be having the same lesion in the left atrium. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-49d6899e5e474f7e90e3ca815e917bc12022-12-21T22:31:28ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of the Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging2543-14632543-14712020-01-0141424410.4103/jiae.jiae_28_19Left Atrial Myxoma: A Great Masquerader with Multiple Clinical Faces – A Case SeriesMohamed IliyasN. SwaminathanGnanavelu GanesanVenkatesan SangareddiWhile syphilis and pulmonary embolism are well known with the eponym of “The Great Masquerader,” atrial myxoma should also be given the eponym due to its variable presentations and frequent misdiagnosis. Myxoma is the most common primary tumor of the adult heart, which is silent and is discovered incidentally. We would like to present three consecutive patients who attended our department with different symptomatologies over a time frame of 2 months. Later, all the three patients were found to be having the same lesion in the left atrium.http://www.jiaecho.org/article.asp?issn=2543-1463;year=2020;volume=4;issue=1;spage=42;epage=44;aulast=atrial fibrillationleft atrial myxomamitral stenosismyocardial infarction |
| spellingShingle | Mohamed Iliyas N. Swaminathan Gnanavelu Ganesan Venkatesan Sangareddi Left Atrial Myxoma: A Great Masquerader with Multiple Clinical Faces – A Case Series Journal of the Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging atrial fibrillation left atrial myxoma mitral stenosis myocardial infarction |
| title | Left Atrial Myxoma: A Great Masquerader with Multiple Clinical Faces – A Case Series |
| title_full | Left Atrial Myxoma: A Great Masquerader with Multiple Clinical Faces – A Case Series |
| title_fullStr | Left Atrial Myxoma: A Great Masquerader with Multiple Clinical Faces – A Case Series |
| title_full_unstemmed | Left Atrial Myxoma: A Great Masquerader with Multiple Clinical Faces – A Case Series |
| title_short | Left Atrial Myxoma: A Great Masquerader with Multiple Clinical Faces – A Case Series |
| title_sort | left atrial myxoma a great masquerader with multiple clinical faces a case series |
| topic | atrial fibrillation left atrial myxoma mitral stenosis myocardial infarction |
| url | http://www.jiaecho.org/article.asp?issn=2543-1463;year=2020;volume=4;issue=1;spage=42;epage=44;aulast= |
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