title: Cardiac Wegener's granulomatosis masquerading as left atrial myxoma.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Herbst
authors.forename: Mary T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Padilla
authors.forename: Anil R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Prasad
authors.forename: Monty C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Morales
authors.forename: Jack G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Copeland
mesh_terms: D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D014890:Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000175:diagnosis*