All of the following are clinical features of myxomas , except
Correct Answer: Hypeension
Description: Ref Harrison 19 th ed pg 1577: 289e-1 Myxomas also may present with peripheral or pulmonary emboli or with constitutional signs and symptoms, including fever, weight loss, cachexia, malaise, ahralgias, rash, digital clubbing, Raynaud's phenomenon, hypergam- maglobulinemia, anemia, polycythemia, leukocytosis, elevated eryth- rocyte sedimentation rate, thrombocytopenia, and thrombocytosis. These features account for the frequent misdiagnosis of patients with myxomas as having endocarditis, collagen vascular disease, or a para- neoplastic syndrome.
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