Right atrial mass following transcatheter radiofrequency ablation for recurrent atrial fibrillation: Thrombus, endocarditis or mixoma?

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Cardiac Series

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-42

  Ancona, Roberta ^a   Pinto, Salvatore Comenale ^a,c   Caso, Pio ^a   Di Palma, Vito ^a   Pisacane, Francesca ^a   Martiniello, Alfonso Roberto ^a   Quarto, Cesare ^b   De Rosa, Nicla ^a   Pisacane, Carlo ^a   Calabrò, Raffaele ^b  

^a MONALDI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial mass; Atrial myxoma; Infective endocarditis; Right atrial thrombus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM TUMOR; HEART TUMOR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RIGHT ATRIAL MYXOMA; SURGEON; THROMBUS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; PATHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; THROMBOSIS;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; RECURRENCE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 69849101820     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/monaldi.2009.343     Document Type: Article

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