Polymyalgia syndrome and atrial myxoma

We present a case of polymyalgia-like syndrome in a 62-years-old woman with four month history of severe headache, muscular claudication, asthenia, normochromic, normocytic anaemia and elevation of erytrocyte sedimentation rate. A diagnosis of giant left atrial myxoma was made brought about by thora...

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Published inAnales de medicina interna (Madrid, Spain : 1984) Vol. 15; no. 7; p. 370
Main Authors Gómez Rodríguez, N, Vilar Freire, M, Ferreiro Seoane, J L, Ibáñez Ruán, J, Trinidad López, C, Noriega Peiró, F
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published Spain 01.07.1998
Subjects
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography
Electrocardiography
Electromyography
Female
Heart Atria
Heart Neoplasms - complications
Heart Neoplasms - diagnosis
Heart Neoplasms - surgery
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Middle Aged
Myxoma - complications
Myxoma - diagnosis
Myxoma - surgery
Polymyalgia Rheumatica - complications
Polymyalgia Rheumatica - diagnosis
Syndrome
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Summary:We present a case of polymyalgia-like syndrome in a 62-years-old woman with four month history of severe headache, muscular claudication, asthenia, normochromic, normocytic anaemia and elevation of erytrocyte sedimentation rate. A diagnosis of giant left atrial myxoma was made brought about by thoracoabdominal magnetic resonance. Their surgical exeresis was followed by gradual disappearance of symptoms and normalization of laboratory parameters.
ISSN:0212-7199