66-year-old man with an intriguing intracardiac mass.
2020
We present the case of a 66-year-old man admitted with progressive dyspnoea in the last 4 years. He was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis by transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) before hospitalisation and was scheduled for mitral valve replacement. However, preoperative TTE, transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and CT revealed a mass in the posterior mitral annulus (figure 1A–D, yellow arrows). He reported recent anorexia but denied thoracalgia or fever. Laboratory examination indicated mild anaemia. White blood cells, C reactive protein, rheumatoid factor and erythrocyte sedimentation rate were all in normal ranges.
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Preoperative imaging: TTE at …
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