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Giant atrial myxoma mimicking severe mitral stenosis in young patient

The echocardiogram of a twenty-year-old man, previously healthy, suffering from paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea and fatigue after moderate exertion that intensified over a period of about ten days, showed the left atrium myxoma working as severe mitral stenosis.

Myxoma; giant cell tumors; mitral valve stenosis; adolescent


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