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Left atrial myxoma in a child: a challenging diagnosis of a rare lesion
Steffan Sernich1, Aman Chauhan, Dhiraj Singh
1Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Louisiana State University and Children's Hospital, New Orleans, LA 70018, USA.
World Journal for Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery
|June 27, 2013
Abstract:
An eight-year-old child presented with congestive heart failure, blurred vision, and unexplained constitutional symptoms. An echocardiogram demonstrated a giant left atrial mass that obstructed the mitral valve inflow. After excision of the myxoma, the patient had an uneventful recovery.
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