Prominent posterior mitral annular calcification causing embolic stroke and mimicking left atrial fibroma

Eur Heart J. 2007 Sep;28(18):2216. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm052. Epub 2007 Apr 4.

Authors

Kian Keong Poh¹, Malissa J Wood, Ricardo C Cury

Affiliation

¹ Cardiac Ultrasound Lab, Blake 2, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA. doctorpoh@yahoo.com

PMID: 17409106
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm052

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Brain Infarction / diagnosis
Brain Infarction / etiology*
Calcinosis / diagnosis*
Calcinosis / surgery
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Female
Fibroma / diagnosis*
Fibroma / surgery
Heart Atria
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Angiography
Mitral Valve Stenosis / diagnosis*
Mitral Valve Stenosis / etiology
Mitral Valve Stenosis / surgery
Tomography, X-Ray Computed