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Echocardiography in a 53-year-old man with heart failure symptoms revealed a 6 × 5 cm left atrial myxoma obstructing the mitral valve and causing secondary pulmonary hypertension.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights the clinical presentation of a large left atrial myxoma mimicking biventricular heart failure, successfully identified via echocardiography.
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Echocardiography may identify rare myxomas mimicking heart failure; single case leaves generalizability open.
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Hodkinson et al. (2012) conducted a case report in Left atrial myxoma (n=1). Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography in a 53-year-old man with heart failure symptoms revealed a 6 × 5 cm left atrial myxoma obstructing the mitral valve and causing secondary pulmonary hypertension.
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