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Cardiac Wegener’s granulomatosis masquerading as left atrial myxoma
April 2003
April 2003
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Abstract
A 56-year-old woman was referred with mitral regurgitation, left ventricular dysfunction,
and a sessile mass on the anterior leaflet of her mitral valve. The initial impression
from echocardiography was that she had a left atrial myxoma. At operation, we found
an intense inflammatory process diagnosed as Wegener's granulomatosis. It also involved
the aortic valve and contiguous myocardium.