These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Myxoma masquerading as polyarteritis nodosa.
    Author: Thomas MH.
    Journal: J Rheumatol; 1981; 8(1):133-7. PubMed ID: 6111609.
    Abstract:
    A patient who presented with multisystemic symptoms is described. A diagnosis of polyarteritis nodosa was made after arteriographic demonstration of multiple aneurysms in the mesenteric and splenic circulations. The occurrence of a 2nd myocardial infarction in the absence of markers of activity of polyarteritis nodosa led to coronary arteriography which demonstrated a large left atrial myxoma confirmed by echocardiography. Surgical removal of the myxoma was followed by resolution of most of his symptoms and serves to point out the mimicking of a generalized vasculitis by cardiac myxoma.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]