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Hilal Olgun Kucuk1, John Z Nan1, Kathryn F Larson1
1Cardiovascular Medicine Department, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Abstract:
A 68-year-old woman presented with an incidentally found intracardiac mass. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) showed a 26 × 8 mm mobile mass attached to a calcified posterolateral mitral annulus. The mass was removed with a commercially available percutaneous catheter system using cerebral embolic protection and TEE guidance. The pathologic examination showed caseous mitral annular calcification.
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