Ruptured Left Ventricular False Tendon Mimicking a Mural Vegetation

Left ventricular false tendons are cord like structures that traverse the left ventricular cavity. They are found in approximately half of the human hearts examined at autopsy and have no clinical or prognostic significance. They have been well described and usually pose no diagnostic dilemma. We pr...

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Autores principales: Sah, Anuraag, Elkattawy, Sherif, Posimreddy, Sahitya, Elkattawy, Omar, Habib, Mirette G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7781780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33415038
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11885
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author Sah, Anuraag
Elkattawy, Sherif
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description Left ventricular false tendons are cord like structures that traverse the left ventricular cavity. They are found in approximately half of the human hearts examined at autopsy and have no clinical or prognostic significance. They have been well described and usually pose no diagnostic dilemma. We present the first case of a partially ruptured false tendon mimicking mural vegetation in an 80-year-old male with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase Escherichia coli bacteremia.
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spelling pubmed-77817802021-01-06 Ruptured Left Ventricular False Tendon Mimicking a Mural Vegetation Sah, Anuraag Elkattawy, Sherif Posimreddy, Sahitya Elkattawy, Omar Habib, Mirette G Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Left ventricular false tendons are cord like structures that traverse the left ventricular cavity. They are found in approximately half of the human hearts examined at autopsy and have no clinical or prognostic significance. They have been well described and usually pose no diagnostic dilemma. We present the first case of a partially ruptured false tendon mimicking mural vegetation in an 80-year-old male with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase Escherichia coli bacteremia. Cureus 2020-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7781780/ /pubmed/33415038 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11885 Text en Copyright © 2020, Sah et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Ruptured Left Ventricular False Tendon Mimicking a Mural Vegetation
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