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This report describes a patient with a perihilar mass and mediastinal lymphadenopathy mimicking advanced lung cancer. The patient, a 45-year old regular smoker, was admitted to hospital for dyspnea and tachyarrhythmia, and during hospitalization he was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral valve stenosis (MVS) and aortic regurgitation as well as pulmonary venous hypertension. Surgical valve replacement and removal of an atrial thrombus was delayed considerably by diagnostic work-up for suspected malignancy. After cardiac surgery had been performed, recovery was uneventful. On follow-up 1 year later, echocardiography showed well-functioning prosthetic mitral and aortic valves, and normal findings on chest X-ray. Perihilar masses and mediastinal lymphadenopathy presented in this case constitute infrequent yet established findings in MVS, resulting from pulmonary venous congestion and hypertension, and focal lymphedema.
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von Lueder, T., Steine, K., Nerdrum, T. et al. Rheumatic mitral valve stenosis mimicking advanced lung cancer. Heart Vessels 22, 345–348 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00380-007-0979-8
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