Key result
A 75-year-old man presented with recent onset of congestive heart failure and a left atrial mass following weeks of exertional dyspnea, fatigability, and low-grade fever.
Case Report (n=1)
Case report of a 75-year-old man presenting with congestive heart failure and a left atrial mass.
Alerts clinicians to left atrial masses in new-onset heart failure with fever; leaves open etiology-specific management.
Presentation of CaseA 75-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of the recent onset of congestive heart failure and the finding of a left atrial mass. The patient was well until three or four weeks earlier, when he began to experience exertional dyspnea, easy fatigability, and rises in the temperature as high as 37.2°C.During the two or three weeks before admission, peripheral edema and orthopnea developed and increased, and the patient felt lightheaded on two occasions. Two weeks before admission an x-ray film of the chest, obtained elsewhere, was reported to show evidence of congestive heart failure, . . .
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Cabot et al. (1991) conducted a case report in Congestive heart failure and left atrial mass (n=1). A 75-year-old man presented with recent onset of congestive heart failure and a left atrial mass following weeks of exertional dyspnea, fatigability, and low-grade fever.
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