Cardiac tumours.
Most patients with cardiac mass have clinical signs mimicking mitral stenosis. As this tumorous mass carries the risk of obstructing the systemic circulation, the physician must consider the possibility of a cardiac tumour in differential diagnosis. That's why all patients presenting with clinical symptoms and a physical finding of mitral stenosis--even those without a history of rheumatic fever--should have routine echocardiography performed. All patients with a documented mass in cardiac chambers should be treated surgically and without delay, if possible.
Fabián
J
J
Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague.
Sochman
J
J
Firt
P
P
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