title: [Pseudotumoral mitral endocarditis. Diagnostic and therapeutic problems apropos of a case report with review of the literature].
abstract: The authors report an observation of infectious endocarditis of the mitral valve with voluminous pseudo-tumoral growth. The developmental, symptomatic and etiological characteristics of this form of endocarditis were specified through a review of the literature. Echocardiography provides the best means of early detection of these large vegetations but it is not always easy to distinguish them from other left intra-auricular tumors, more especially as several cases of infectious myxoma have been described. Spontaneous development of mitral endocarditis is very harmful, as are infected left intra-auricular tumors, and surgical treatment of these disorders seems essential as soon as the infectious process has been arrested.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010701:Phonocardiography
vernacular_title: L'endocardite mitrale pseudo-tumorale. Problèmes diagnostiques et thérapeutiques à propos d'une observation avec revue de la littérature.