Case report of a 42-year-old woman presenting with a pulmonic valve mass.
Raises awareness for pulmonic valve masses in middle-aged adults; leaves open etiology, diagnosis, and management.
Presentation of CaseA 42-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a mass in the pulmonic valve.The patient had been in stable health until six weeks earlier, when she began to have a dry cough that occasionally produced white sputum, with fatigue and exertional dyspnea. An examination performed 36 days before admission showed a prominent closure sound of the pulmonic valve (P2), without a murmur. The anteroposterior chest diameter was increased, and the respiratory excursion was reduced. The lungs were clear. Radiographs of the chest showed a normal cardiac silhouette, clear lungs, and esophageal dilatation . . .
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