Case report reveals cardiac involvement via atrial pseudomasses in an older adult, highlighting Erdheim-Chester disease as a rare cause of infiltrative heart lesions.
Key Points
Detail the diagnostic identification of Erdheim-Chester disease in an older adult presenting with systemic symptoms and cardiac pseudomasses.
Clinical and diagnostic evaluation of an individual in their early 70s presenting with chest pain, dyspnea, and weight loss.
Transthoracic echocardiography performed to evaluate cardiopulmonary symptoms and assess intracardiac structures.
Echocardiographic imaging identified characteristic atrial pseudomasses within the heart.
Comprehensive clinical workup confirmed a rare systemic diagnosis of Erdheim-Chester disease presenting with cardiac infiltration.