Right Atrial Fibroelastoma Presenting as Typical Atrial Flutter: Rare Disease in Unusual Location

Typical atrial flutter as initial presentation of papillary fibroelastoma involving the cavotricuspid isthmus is not described before in literature. To our knowledge only 14 cases have been reported in literature involving the right atrium. Very unusual location is at the junction between inferior v...

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Autores principales: Abuarqoub, Ahmad, Elshimy, Ghada, Shittu, Muhammed, Hamdan, Aiman, Shamoon, Fayez
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5654271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29130002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4764587
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author Abuarqoub, Ahmad
Elshimy, Ghada
Shittu, Muhammed
Hamdan, Aiman
Shamoon, Fayez
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description Typical atrial flutter as initial presentation of papillary fibroelastoma involving the cavotricuspid isthmus is not described before in literature. To our knowledge only 14 cases have been reported in literature involving the right atrium. Very unusual location is at the junction between inferior vena cava (IVC) and right atria as only 1 case has been reported.
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spelling pubmed-56542712017-11-12 Right Atrial Fibroelastoma Presenting as Typical Atrial Flutter: Rare Disease in Unusual Location Abuarqoub, Ahmad Elshimy, Ghada Shittu, Muhammed Hamdan, Aiman Shamoon, Fayez Case Rep Cardiol Case Report Typical atrial flutter as initial presentation of papillary fibroelastoma involving the cavotricuspid isthmus is not described before in literature. To our knowledge only 14 cases have been reported in literature involving the right atrium. Very unusual location is at the junction between inferior vena cava (IVC) and right atria as only 1 case has been reported. Hindawi 2017 2017-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5654271/ /pubmed/29130002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4764587 Text en Copyright © 2017 Ahmad Abuarqoub et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Right Atrial Fibroelastoma Presenting as Typical Atrial Flutter: Rare Disease in Unusual Location
title Right Atrial Fibroelastoma Presenting as Typical Atrial Flutter: Rare Disease in Unusual Location
title_full Right Atrial Fibroelastoma Presenting as Typical Atrial Flutter: Rare Disease in Unusual Location
title_fullStr Right Atrial Fibroelastoma Presenting as Typical Atrial Flutter: Rare Disease in Unusual Location
title_full_unstemmed Right Atrial Fibroelastoma Presenting as Typical Atrial Flutter: Rare Disease in Unusual Location
title_short Right Atrial Fibroelastoma Presenting as Typical Atrial Flutter: Rare Disease in Unusual Location
title_sort right atrial fibroelastoma presenting as typical atrial flutter: rare disease in unusual location
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5654271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29130002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4764587
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