Left Atrial Myxoma in Children: A Case Report
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Un gargon de 13 ans fut hospitalise dans le Service de Pediatrie du C.H.U. de Pahlavi de la Faculte de Medicine de Teheran, pour une insuffisance cardiaque. Les signes auscultatoires, radiologiques et electriques evoquaient une stenose mitrale. Le malade deceda <lans le tableau d'oedeme pulmonaire aigli, apres quelques episodes d'hemiparesies resolutives. A l'autopsie, il existait un myxcme de l'ordlleae gauche obs:ruant combletement l'orifice miral, ainsi que des embolies cerebrales et renales hisologiquement identiques. En raison de la frequence des cardiopathies rhumatismales en Iran, les au:teurs evoquent les difficultes diagnostiques des myxomes, et soulignent la valeur diagnostique des episodes d'embolies a repetition, ainsi que l'interet de l'angiocardiographie.
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عنوان ژورنال
دوره 3 شماره 3
صفحات 185- 191
تاریخ انتشار 1975-03
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