Prominent posterior mitral annular calcification causing embolic stroke and mimicking left atrial fibroma.
Poh
Kian Keong
KK
Cardiac Ultrasound Lab, Blake 2, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA. doctorpoh@yahoo.com
Wood
Malissa J
MJ
Cury
Ricardo C
RC
D000368:Aged; D020520:Brain Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006325:Heart Atria; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed