Case report of a 27-year-old woman presenting with syncope and two intracardiac masses.
Alerts clinicians to rare dual intracardiac masses in young syncope; leaves open questions on etiology and management.
Presentation of CaseA 27-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of syncope and two intracardiac masses.The patient had been well until about three years before admission, when she had an episode of numbness in the lower left area of the face, associated with weakness of the right arm and right leg; the numbness lasted 30 to 60 minutes and did not recur. Evaluation at that time included cranial computed tomographic (CT) scanning, which reportedly showed no abnormalities; a cardiac ultrasonographic study was not performed. She was well for the next year. During the two years before admission, . . .
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Basson et al. (2002) studied this question.