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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2072-8174</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista del Nacional (Itauguá)]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. Nac. (Itauguá)]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2072-8174</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Hospital Nacional (Itauguá)]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S2072-81742017000200084</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18004/rdn2017.0009.02.084-090</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Mixoma auricular izquierdo: manifestación por lipotimia y episodios sincopales de corta duración]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Left atrial myxoma: manifestation due to lipotimia and syncopal episodes of short duration]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Jarolín Figueredo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jorge]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto de Previsión Social Hospital Central ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Asunción ]]></addr-line>
<country>Paraguay</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>9</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>84</fpage>
<lpage>90</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.iics.una.py/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2072-81742017000200084&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.iics.una.py/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2072-81742017000200084&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.iics.una.py/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2072-81742017000200084&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN Se presenta un caso de mixoma auricular izquierdo que se manifiesta clínicamente por episodios sincopales de corta duración relacionados con la posición postural. El diagnóstico fue confirmado con la ecocardiografía transtorácica y transesofágica y complementado con un cateterismo cardiaco en donde se descubrió una lesión severa de la arteria descendente anterior. La cirugía cardiaca con circulación extracorpórea fue el tratamiento lográndose exéresis completa del tumor en el sitio de implante de su pedículo.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT We present a case of left atrial myxoma that is manifested clinically by syncopal episodes of short duration related to the postural position. The diagnosis was confirmed by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography and complemented by cardiac catheterization in which a severe lesion of the anterior descending artery was discovered. Cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation was the treatment achieving complete excision of the tumor at the site of implantation of its pedicle.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[mixoma auricular]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[lipotimia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[cardiac tumor]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[atrial myxoma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[lipothymia]]></kwd>
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