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A 55-year-old man with a left atrial myxoma infected with Porphyromonas asaccharolytica, along with a…
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Case_report
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Supports suspicion for infected myxoma in febrile patients with elevated ESR; case-level data leaves open need for prospective validation.
Infected cardiac myxomas are rare but should be suspected in patients with constitutional symptoms, with transesophageal echocardiography being the diagnostic procedure of choice and surgical excision providing curative treatment.
Revankar et al. (1998) studied this question.
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