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A giant left atrial myxoma causing left-sided heart failure
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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Atrial Myxoma: histological Confirmation
Atrial myxoma is uncommon, with an overall prevalence in the developed world of 0.02%.1 It is often undiagnosed until complications such as cardiac death or stroke occur. The incidence of primitive tumours of the heart at autopsy is between 0.0017% and 0.
Ngow, Harris Abdullah +1 more
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Systemic Embolization and Myocardial Infarction due to Clinically Unrecognized Left Atrial Myxoma
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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Left ventricular fibrosarcoma in a 4‐year‐old labrador
Abstract A 4‐year‐old, male, neutered labrador presented for investigations into a single episode of collapse and an intracardiac mass. Echocardiography and computed tomography confirmed the presence of a large soft tissue mass within the left ventricular lumen, which nearly obstructed the left ventricular outflow tract.
Natalia Caldecott +4 more
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A Giant Right Atrial Myxoma Presenting with Tricuspid Valve Stenosis on Three-Dimensional Echocardiography [PDF]
Üç boyutlu ekokardiyografide triküspit kapak stenozu nedeni olan bir mixoma vakası raporlandı. Bayılma, tromboemboli ve ani ölüm gibi komplikasyonların önlenebilmesi için ekokardiyografi aracılığı ile mixomaların erken teşhisi klinisyenler açısından ...
Mustafa Çetin +7 more
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Primary sarcomas of the pulmonary vein are extremely rare. Although myxomas are the most common intracavitary tumor of the left atrium, some findings should alert the clinician to the probability of malignancy.
宣錦峰;曾維功;李統立;胡珀元;吳造中 +1 more
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Background 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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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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Atrial 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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Mass Encroaching on the Right Atrium: An Unusual Echocardiography Finding
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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