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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1409-4142</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Costarricense de Cardiología]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. costarric. cardiol]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-4142</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Costarricense de Cardiología]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S1409-41422025000300042</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.63885/rcc.v27n2.004</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Tuberculoma cardíaco]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Cardiac tuberculoma]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Fernández-García]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Guillermo]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Fallas-Mora]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ignacio]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Alvarado-Sánchez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Eduardo]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social Hospital San Vicente de Paul Servicio de Cardiología]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ San José]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>27</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>42</fpage>
<lpage>46</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-41422025000300042&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-41422025000300042&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-41422025000300042&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen La tuberculosis (TB) sigue siendo una enfermedad importante en países en vías de desarrollo. La presentación miocárdica que solo afecta al miocardio es muy inusual. Su diagnóstico se basa en una alta sospecha diagnóstica y, de ser posible, se complementa con un estudio histopatológico, lo cual no siempre es factible. En este reporte de un caso presentamos una paciente femenina de 20 años de edad con el diagnóstico de TB activa y tromboembolismo pulmonar, en quien se documenta de manera incidental una masa en cámara cardiaca derecha. Tras el tratamiento óptimo, la masa demostró regresión en los estudios posteriores.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Tuberculosis (TB) is still an important disease in third-world countries. Myocardial clinical presentation that only involves myocardium is quite unusual. The diagnosis will be based on high clinical suspicion and, if possible, complemented by histopathological studies, which is not always possible. In this case report, we present a 20-year-old female with a TB diagnosis and thromboembolism in which we detect a cardiac mass in the right chamber. After optimal treatment, the mass showed a regression in its size, according to posterior studies.]]></p></abstract>
<kwd-group>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Tuberculosis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Tuberculoma cardiaco]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Masa]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Trombo.]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Tuberculosis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Cardiac tuberculoma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Mass]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Thrombus.]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
</article-meta>
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