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- Title
Heart Failure and a Right Ventricular Mass: Pitfalls on the Way to the Diagnosis.
- Authors
Leitman, Marina; Maslakov, Ilia; Hendler, Alberto; Rosenblatt, Simcha; Konen, Eli; Fuchs, Therese; Vered, Zvi
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 36 year old female patient with a history of asthma who was admitted to a hospital as a result of symptoms of progressive myalgia and weakness. A discussion of diagnostic testing which was conducted on the patient and resulted in her receiving diagnoses of Churg-Strauss syndrome, heart failure and a right ventricular mass, is presented.
- Subjects
ANTICOAGULANTS; DIAGNOSIS; MYOCARDIAL infarction diagnosis; STEROID drugs; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE agents; CORONARY disease; EOSINOPHILIA; RIGHT heart ventricle; HEART failure; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; MYOCARDIAL infarction; CHURG-Strauss syndrome; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Echocardiography, 2011, Vol 28, Issue 4, p482
- ISSN
0742-2822
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8175.2010.01358.x