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A giant left atrial myxoma causing left-sided heart failure
SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2022 This report presents a case study on giant left atrial myxoma. Transthoracic echocardiography showed a giant mass in the left atrium of a 53-year-old female patient causing functional mitral stenosis.
Akiko Baba +3 more
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Clinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 4, April 2026.ABSTRACT Primary cardiac lipomas are rare benign tumors that are usually indolent but may cause compression or arrhythmia when large. We sought to describe the safety and feasibility of a totally thoracoscopic, off‐pump approach for their resection. A 33‐year‐old asymptomatic woman was found to have a 5.1 × 3.6 cm fat‐density mass at the roof of the ...
Liang Zhou +3 more
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Robotics in Cardiac Surgery: Past, Present, and Future [PDF]
, 2013 Robotic cardiac operations evolved from minimally invasive operations and offer similar theoretical benefits, including less pain, shorter length of stay, improved cosmesis, and quicker return to preoperative level of functional activity.
Bolotin, Gil, Nir, Rony-Reuven
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Mass Encroaching on the Right Atrium: An Unusual Echocardiography Finding
Clinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 4, April 2026.Right hemidiaphragmatic eventration compressing the right atrium, seen on transthoracic echocardiography and confirmed by chest computed tomography, highlighting the importance of differentiating intracardiac masses from extracardiac masses when performing a cardiac echography.
Dina El Chebabi, Nassif Feghali
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Systemic Embolization and Myocardial Infarction due to Clinically Unrecognized Left Atrial Myxoma
Case Reports in Medicine, 2011 Myxomas are the most common primary tumors of the heart. We report an extraordinary severe case of left atrial myxoma, presenting with stroke, myocardial infarction, and multiple arterial embolism including aorta, splenic and renal arteries, and several ...
Britta Vogel +4 more
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Journal of Arrhythmia, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2026.Carbon dioxide insufflation via intentional coronary sinus perforation allowed real‐time assessment of pericardial adhesion distribution before pericardial puncture. Despite localized adhesions, visualization of preserved pericardial space at the intended access site enabled informed procedural planning and safe percutaneous epicardial ablation in a ...
Yuhei Kasai +4 more
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The Egyptian Heart JournalBackground Infective endocarditis (IE) remains a serious and potentially life-threatening condition. Fungal infective endocarditis is a rare form of endocarditis that occur in immunodeficient patients.
MOHAMED MOUNIR NESNASSI +6 more
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Clinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT When lung adenocarcinoma is accompanied by a tumor thrombus that extends through the pulmonary veins to the left atrium, it is an extremely rare case, and the disease is already at stage IIIA. The available treatment methods are also quite limited.
Zhongjian Chong +3 more
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Primary cardiac sarcoma presenting as acute left-sided heart failure [PDF]
, 2014 Primary cardiac sarcomas are rare malignant tumors of the heart. Clinical features depend on the site of tumor and vary from symptoms of congestive heart failure to thromboembolism and arrhythmias.
Alsara O +23 more
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Journal of International Medical ResearchAtrial myxoma is the most common primary benign tumor of the heart, with over 75% occurring in the left atrium. The migration of myxoma cells can lead to rare neurological complications such as intracranial aneurysms, embolic strokes, and arteriovenous ...
Min Xia +8 more
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