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Cardiac Myxoma Single Center Experience
Background: cardiac myxoma is the most frequent primary cardiac tumour comprising 30 to 50%, they are benign tumours. They are most often reported in women in the third to sixth decade of life.
Adil Kh. Dawood
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Cardiac myxoma cells exhibit embryonic endocardial stem cell features
The origin of myxoma, the most frequent tumour of the heart, remains uncertain. Previous phenotypic characterizations have shown heterogeneous results and the most recent hypothesis suggests that cardiac myxoma originates from a primitive pluripotential ...
Ciucci, A +9 more
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An unusual cause of sudden death: Cardiac myxoma
Primary tumors of the heart are rare; the most common cardiac tumor is atrial myxoma. Sudden death may occur in patients with atrial myxoma, tumor embolization, or obstruction of blood flow at the mitral or tricuspid valve.
Çomunoğlu, Nil
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Surgical Management of Cardiac Myxomas in Elderly Patients
Objective: Cardiac myxoma usually presents during early adulthood. There is generally a tendency for prompt surgical resection. However, advanced age of patients presenting with this disease may increase the operative risk due to other cardiac and non ...
Kamil Boyacioglu +7 more
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Left ventricular cardiac myxoma and sudden death in a dog
BACKGROUND: Myxoma is a very rare benign cardiac tumor in dogs. This is the first description of a cardiac myxoma originating from the left ventricular outflow tract, presumably causing sudden death.
Bergmann, Wilhelmina +13 more
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Identification of Stem-Like Cells in Atrial Myxoma by Markers CD44, CD19, and CD45
Atrial myxoma is the most frequent tumor arising mainly in atrial septum and its origin remains uncertain. It has been reported that a subpopulation of stem-like cells are present in benign tumors and responsible for tumor initiation and maintenance.
Xianghe Song +7 more
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Cardiac myxoma is a rare etiology of ischemic stroke, especially in young people. We report a case of multiple myxomas in left atrium and right ventricle inducing acute cerebral infarction.
Chengbin Tang +11 more
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Echocardiogram of the month Thombus or myxoma?
A case of a 70 year old female with permanent atrial fibrillation and a history of stroke is presented. Echocardiography showed the presence of an oval mass in the left atrium which suggested thrombus or atrial myxoma.
Kuśmierczyk-Droszcz, Beata +4 more
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Case Report of a Rare Benign Cardiac Tumor: Atrial Myxoma
We report a rare case of benign cardiac tumor - atrial myxoma - who completely recovered after ...
Mahesh Kumar Gupta +3 more
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