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Primary left atrial angiosarcoma mimicking severe mitral valve stenosis
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Primary cardiac tumours are quite rare and most of these tumours are benign. In this report, a patient presented with heart failure symptoms attributable to severe mitral valve stenosis. Echocardiography showed a dense left atrial mass causing functional mitral valve obstruction. The morphological and intraoperative presentation was highly suggestive of a myxoma but histopathological examination found a primary pedunculated cardiac angiosarcoma. The role of two dimensional and transoesophageal echocardiography in the assessment of cardiac masses and tumours is discussed.
- angiosarcoma
- left atrium
- transoesophageal echocardiography
- Doppler echocardiography
- functional mitral stenosis
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