Atrial myxoma masquerading as Takayasu’s arteritis

We describe the case of a 48-year-old woman whose atrial myxoma was mistaken for vasculitis. The case report highlights the reasons why these two disorders may become confused, the dangers of initiating the wrong treatment and a simple means of avoiding misdiagnosis.

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Autores principales: Fung, Kenneth, Edmondson, Stephen, Wald, David S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4228930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25408917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270414550977
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spelling pubmed-42289302014-11-18 Atrial myxoma masquerading as Takayasu’s arteritis Fung, Kenneth Edmondson, Stephen Wald, David S JRSM Open Case Report We describe the case of a 48-year-old woman whose atrial myxoma was mistaken for vasculitis. The case report highlights the reasons why these two disorders may become confused, the dangers of initiating the wrong treatment and a simple means of avoiding misdiagnosis. SAGE Publications 2014-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4228930/ /pubmed/25408917 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270414550977 Text en © The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm).
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Atrial myxoma masquerading as Takayasu’s arteritis
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title_short Atrial myxoma masquerading as Takayasu’s arteritis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4228930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25408917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270414550977
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