Abstract
A 10-year-old boy presented with unspecific symptoms and laboratory abnormalities simulating a chronic recurrent inflammatory disorder. Cardiovascular symptoms were absent. After 2 years of intermittent symptoms and persisting laboratory signs of an inflammatory disorder, echocardiographic evaluation revealed a large left atrial tumour. Immediate surgical excision confirmed the diagnosis of a cardiac myxoma and resulted in freedom from symptoms and normalization of laboratory parameters.
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Abbreviations
- ASOT :
-
antistreptolysin titre
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Pfammatter, J.P., Iff, T. & Schüpbach, P. Imitation of a chronic recurrent inflammatory illness by a cardiac myxoma. Eur J Pediatr 155, 637–639 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01957143
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