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April 1, 2007Current Sports Medicine Reports

Exertional Dyspnea in a Soldier

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Population

34-year-old male soldier presenting with exertional dyspnea and a rash on his left upper extremity…

Design

Case_report

Follow-up

2.5 years

Authors

JMJ MeyerFOFrancis G. O’Connor

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Overview

May lead to spontaneous AF resolution after myxoma resection; leaves open generalizability and mechanisms in larger cohorts.

Structured PICO

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Population
34-year-old male soldier presenting with exertional dyspnea and a rash on his left upper extremity associated with dysesthesias
I
Intervention
Surgical resection of left atrial myxoma
O
Outcome
Resolution of symptoms and recurrence of mass

Cardiac myxomas can present with nonspecific symptoms such as exertional dyspnea and peripheral emboli mimicking rash, requiring high clinical suspicion and echocardiography for diagnosis.

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Meyer et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7120c4e71d69abee090e02https://doi.org/10.1097/01.csmr.0000306445.94444.46
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