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Chest lymphadenopathy and HOCM prompt a diagnostic procedure in a patient with syncope and edema.
Case report describing the presentation of a 65-year-old man with syncope and hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.
May prompt biopsy to exclude infiltrative disease in apparent HOCM with lymphadenopathy; leaves open optimal diagnostic strategy.
A 65-year-old man presented with syncope. One month earlier, cough, dyspnea, and leg edema had developed. Imaging studies of the chest revealed lymphadenopathy, and an echocardiogram showed hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. A diagnostic procedure was performed.
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Moore et al. (2016) studied this question. A 65-year-old man presenting with syncope, dyspnea, and leg edema was found to have chest lymphadenopathy and hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy prompting a diagnostic procedure.
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