Primary Cardiac Tumor Identified as the Cause of Seizure

A 65-year-old woman presented to the emergency department after a seizure. An unexplained bradycardia and heart murmur were detected and an emergency bedside echocardiography was performed. This revealed a mass in the left atrium. The provisional diagnosis of left atrial tumor was later confirmed by...

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Autores principales: Dioszeghy, Csaba, Kamaras, Gyorgyi, Frigyik, Aniko
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2011
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Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21691476
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author Dioszeghy, Csaba
Kamaras, Gyorgyi
Frigyik, Aniko
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description A 65-year-old woman presented to the emergency department after a seizure. An unexplained bradycardia and heart murmur were detected and an emergency bedside echocardiography was performed. This revealed a mass in the left atrium. The provisional diagnosis of left atrial tumor was later confirmed by formal echocardiography and ultimately by histology. The first presentation of primary cardiac tumors can be misleading and sometimes presents with neurological manifestations. An early echocardiography can be diagnostic and could lead to early surgical intervention with better prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-30883792011-06-20 Primary Cardiac Tumor Identified as the Cause of Seizure Dioszeghy, Csaba Kamaras, Gyorgyi Frigyik, Aniko West J Emerg Med Neuroscience A 65-year-old woman presented to the emergency department after a seizure. An unexplained bradycardia and heart murmur were detected and an emergency bedside echocardiography was performed. This revealed a mass in the left atrium. The provisional diagnosis of left atrial tumor was later confirmed by formal echocardiography and ultimately by histology. The first presentation of primary cardiac tumors can be misleading and sometimes presents with neurological manifestations. An early echocardiography can be diagnostic and could lead to early surgical intervention with better prognosis. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2011-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3088379/ /pubmed/21691476 Text en Copyright © 2011 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Dioszeghy, Csaba
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Primary Cardiac Tumor Identified as the Cause of Seizure
title Primary Cardiac Tumor Identified as the Cause of Seizure
title_full Primary Cardiac Tumor Identified as the Cause of Seizure
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title_short Primary Cardiac Tumor Identified as the Cause of Seizure
title_sort primary cardiac tumor identified as the cause of seizure
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