European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on April 4, 2007
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm052
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Prominent posterior mitral annular calcification causing embolic stroke and mimicking left atrial fibroma
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
2 Cardiac MR-PET-CT Program, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
3 Cardiac Department, National University Hospital, Singapore
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A 74-year-old woman status post-resection for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was found to have a left atrial mass in the posterior mitral annulus encroaching upon and causing