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Left Atrial Fungal Mass Masquerading as Myxoma: The Importance of Histopathological Confirmation: A Case Report

2025-07-25

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold>Infective endocarditis (IE) remains a serious and potentially life-threatening condition. Fungal infective endocarditis is a rare form of endocarditis that occur in immunodeficient patients. Atrial myxoma are a common cause of cardiac tumors in the left atrium. However, infective endocarditis is a differential diagnosis of cardiac masses in general and atrial myxo...

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Literature Corpus work: e9105844-3b81-58b5-9f6f-b1cfe9c84157
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7087630/v1

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