Giant right atrial mass obliterating the right atrium

A73-year-old man with past medical history of mechanical aortic valve replacement, metastatic melanoma of unknown primaries with liver metastasis, presented with progressive shortness of breath and dyspnea on exertion. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) showed a large homogenous mass completely oc...

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Autores principales: Al-Fakhouri, Ahmad, Hwang, Inyong, Alsafwah, Shadwan F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2015
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Radiology Imaging
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26486123
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v5.29607
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description A73-year-old man with past medical history of mechanical aortic valve replacement, metastatic melanoma of unknown primaries with liver metastasis, presented with progressive shortness of breath and dyspnea on exertion. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) showed a large homogenous mass completely occupying the right atrial cavity and extending to and nearly obstructing the inflow area of the tricuspid valve. He was treated with chemotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-46124802015-11-23 Giant right atrial mass obliterating the right atrium Al-Fakhouri, Ahmad Hwang, Inyong Alsafwah, Shadwan F. J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Radiology Imaging A73-year-old man with past medical history of mechanical aortic valve replacement, metastatic melanoma of unknown primaries with liver metastasis, presented with progressive shortness of breath and dyspnea on exertion. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) showed a large homogenous mass completely occupying the right atrial cavity and extending to and nearly obstructing the inflow area of the tricuspid valve. He was treated with chemotherapy. Co-Action Publishing 2015-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4612480/ /pubmed/26486123 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v5.29607 Text en © 2015 Ahmad Al-Fakhouri et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Giant right atrial mass obliterating the right atrium
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title_full Giant right atrial mass obliterating the right atrium
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title_short Giant right atrial mass obliterating the right atrium
title_sort giant right atrial mass obliterating the right atrium
topic Radiology Imaging
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26486123
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