Uncommon Cardiac Malformation in a Rare Genetic Disease
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I am presenting the clinical case of a young man aged 24, who was participating in a sports class at his university, when he was participating in the running trial; he suddenly got dizzy, had an accelerated heart rate, chest pain and lipothymia, without losing consciousness. His colleagues intended to call the emergency services, but the young man suddenly got better and refused to be admitted at the hospital. After this incident he presented two other episodes of dizziness and an accelerated heart rate, during the sports class, he went to the family doctor and he sent him to a specialist. During the consultation, I founded at the objective examination rhythmic heart sounds, HR=75 beats/min, a mid-systolic click in the mitral area, proto-systolic murmur heart without irradiation with the character of a vapour ejection, BP=120/80 mmHg, a normal vesicular sound.
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