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Abstract
Patients often present to the Emergency Department (ED) with a constellation of seemingly unassociated complaints. It is a clinical challenge not only to address all signs and symptoms that concern the patient but to reconcile these incongruous findings into one all-encompassing diagnosis. We present the case of a 48-year-old man who manifested neurologic, cardiac, and constitutional signs and symptoms in the ED. Through historic clues, physical examination findings, and electrocardiogram, we obtained an urgent cardiac ultrasound that demonstrated a large left atrial myxoma. This one disease entity was able to explain all of the patient's diverse findings.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18657933 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.11.105
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Emerg Med ISSN: 0736-4679 Impact factor: 1.484