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Natural growth of left atrial myxoma

, 2021
: Myxomas are common benign cardiac tumors that can cause life-threatening events. Urgent surgical excision is needed. Therefore, little is known about their growth rate. We present a peculiar case of an incidental left atrial myxoma offering calculation
El Addouli, Haroun, Paelinck, Bernard, Abdulmajid, Lilaf, De Bock, Dina   +3 more
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Left atrial myxoma with an atrial septal defect

, 2009
In a 62-year old woman with arterial hypertension, a left atrial myxoma and a concomitant atrial septal defect, diagnosed intraoperatively, were recognized.
Jegier, Bogdan; Department of Cardiac Surgery, 1st Chair of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Łódź, Poland, Jaszewski, Ryszard, Lelonek, Małgorzata   +2 more
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Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and a rare case of an atrial myxoma causing an atrial septal defect

Radiology Case Reports, 2017
A 40 year-old athletic woman presented with worsening dyspnea on exertion over the preceding several months. Chest radiograph showed borderline cardiomegaly and subsequent echocardiography demonstrated a 5.0-cm left atrial mass as well as left-to-right ...
Matthew Grant, MD, Samuel Douglass, DO, Eric Roberge, MD, Eric Shry, MD   +3 more
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Left Atrial Myxoma

, 2020
While syphilis and pulmonary embolism are well known with the eponym of “The Great Masquerader,” atrial myxoma should also be given the eponym due to its variable presentations and frequent misdiagnosis.
Venkatesan Sangareddi, N. Swaminathan, Gnanavelu Ganesan, Mohamed Iliyas   +3 more
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Two cases of atrial myxoma with calcification and ossification as the main features

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Background Cardiac myxomas are the most common type of primary cardiac tumors in adults, but they can have variable features that make them difficult to diagnose.
Yafei Yin, Juan Deng, Yuan Liu, Jingxin Zheng, Yun Zhang, Qizhi Bai, Yali Xu, Guoliang Yang   +7 more
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Cerebral aneurysm associated with cardiac myxoma: Case Report

Biomolecules & Biomedicine, 2011
Left atrial myxomas are a rare but well known cause of cerebrovascular accidents in young people. Cerebral embolism is the most common cause of cerebral ischemic stroke. The intracranial aneurysm is rarely associated with myxoma. We report the case of a
Branislava A. Ivanović, Marijana Tadić, Mile Vraneš, Bojana Orbović   +3 more
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Cardiovascular: Atrial Myxoma

, 1900
Atrial myxoma: Mass "plucked" from atrium-only small attachment to atrium shown at ...
MUSC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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A case of left atrial myxoma associated with atrial septal defect

, 2005
(J Card Surg 2005;20:475-477)Cardiac myxoma is the most frequent primary tumor of the heart. However, it is rarely associ-ated with congenital cardiac anomalies such as atrial septal defect in the literature. We present a 72-year-oldwoman referred to the
Erdil, Nevzat, Nisanoğlu, Vedat, Koşar, Feridun, Şahin, İbrahim, Battaloğlu, Bektaş, Güllü, Hakan   +5 more
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Left atrial myxoma with cardiogenic shock following a myocardial infarction: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports
Background Myxomas are the most common primary cardiac tumor and typically originate in the left atrium. Atrial myxomas may present following complications of obstruction and emboli.
Ian Lancaster, Tara Hrobowski-Blackman, Deep Patel, Lubna Chatoor, Joshini Simon, Andrew Willinger   +5 more
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Fulminant brain necrosis from atrial myxoma showers.

, 1993
Atrial myxoma is uncommon and may be associated with brief isolated ischemic events. We describe a patient with atrial myxoma and an incompletely evaluated ischemic stroke followed 1 year later with almost complete brain necrosis. A 63-year-old
E F Wijdicks, R W Viggiano, W T Browne, J E Parisi   +3 more
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