Antituberculous chemotherapy can successfully treat right atrial tuberculoma, a rare condition typically diagnosed at necropsy.
May support antituberculous chemotherapy for right atrial tuberculoma; hypothesis-generating from single case report.
Localised tuberculous myocardial lesions (tuberculomas) are extremely rare and usually diagnosed at necropsy.' 2 We present here the clinical, angiographic, and pathological findings in a patient with myocardial tuberculosis pre- senting as an obstructing mass in the right atrium. The disease was successfully treated by antituberculous chemotherapy.
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