Cardiac Wegener's granulomatosis masquerading as left atrial myxoma.
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.
Herbst
Anne
A
University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
Padilla
Mary T
MT
Prasad
Anil R
AR
Morales
Monty C
MC
Copeland
Jack G
JG
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*