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A bleeding disorder caused by a cardiac tumor: case report
L E Oostenbrug1, J P Ottervanger, E C Dompeling
1Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
|June 8, 2001
Abstract:
A 22-year-old female developed symptomatic thrombocytopenia. On physical examination, apart from ecchymoses, a loud holosystolic murmur was heard. Echocardiography revealed a cardiac tumor. The thrombocytopenia did not respond to corticosteroids, but after surgical removal of the intracardiac tumor, a papillary fibroelastoma, the platelet count normalised. There are no similar case reports in the literature. Our case report illustrates that thrombocytopenia may be associated with a cardiac tumor and that complete physical examination is essential in every patient presenting with easy bruising.