Highlights a rare presentation of a right atrial hemangioma causing symptomatic heart failure in an elderly patient.
Rare right atrial hemangioma merits consideration in elderly heart failure; extends sparse literature on this tumor's symptomatic presentations.
Hemangiomas are rare benign tumours of the heart, generally asymptomatic and usually diagnosed in male young or full-grown adults. We report here a case of a symptomatic right atrial hemangioma in a 75-year-old woman with a clinical history of hypertension. The tumour was diagnosed after an episode of acute bronchopneumonia precipiting the patient's cardiac failure initially referred to the hypertensive condition.
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