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Left Atrial Myxoma Masquerading As Viral Flu

Overview
Journal Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent)
Specialty General Medicine
Date 2016 Oct 4
PMID 27695187
Authors
Ossama Elsaid
Lovely Chhabra
Francis Kiernan
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Abstract

Atrial myxoma is a rare cardiac tumor that may be diagnosed incidentally on cardiac imaging or may present with life-threatening cardiac symptoms. We present a case of giant left atrial myxoma that presented as a flulike illness.

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