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Giant left atrial myxoma causing mitral regurgitation through annulus dilatation [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Key Clinical Message Giant left atrial myxoma causing mitral regurgitation through mitral annulus dilatation without affecting leaflet function is rarely reported.
Danfeng Xu, Xuejie Li
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Rheumatic mitral valve disease with left atrial myxoma: Unexpected encounter [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Key Clinical Message Rheumatic mitral stenosis associated with left atrial myxoma has been reported previously. We reported an admitted rare case of rheumatic mitral regurgitation with left atrial myxoma. The discrimination between left atrial myxoma and
Jiaqi Yang, Kun Huang, Xuejie Li
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Asymptomatic Left Atrial Myxoma

Journal of Cardiovascular Echography, 2022
Primary tumors of the heart are extremely rare. The most common is the left atrial myxoma. This article presents a case of large asymptomatic left atrial myxoma in an 80-year-old woman. The patient was admitted to the hospital emergency department after a traffic accident. After a performed trauma scan and an echocardiographic
Tetera, Weronika, Wilk, Aleksandra, Król, Wojciech, Braksator, Wojciech   +3 more
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Atypical presentation of left atrial myxoma: a case report

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Atrial Myxoma is the most common primary benign tumour of the heart, commonly found in the left atrium. It typically presents in young females with characteristic features such as, constitutional symptoms, chest pain, and cardiac murmurs.
Mujtaba Azhar Siddiqui, Muhammad Ismail Ibrahim, Muhammad Salih, Muneeba Khan, Muhammad Tariq Farman   +4 more
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A case report of left atrial myxoma presenting as embolic stroke [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Key Clinical Message Embolic stroke may rarely be the first presenting symptom of atrial myxoma. Multiple infarcts should be evaluated for embolic causes. Correct etiological diagnosis in cardio‐embolic stroke guides proper management strategy.
Prachi Sharma, Yusuf A. Kumble, Abhigan Babu Shrestha, Vikash Jaiswal   +3 more
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Left Atrial Myxoma Hypervascularized from the Right Coronary Artery: An Interesting Cath Lab Finding [PDF]

Case Reports in Cardiology, 2016
Primary cardiac tumors are rare and approximately half of them are atrial myxomas. They rarely remain asymptomatic, especially if large. The imaging of a myxoma by contrast dye during coronary angiography is an infrequent sign, which clarifies the ...
Marcos Danillo Peixoto Oliveira, Adriano Ossuna Tamazato, Fernando Roberto de Fazzio, Luiz J. Kajita, Expedito E. Ribeiro, Pedro Alves Lemos   +5 more
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Left atrial myxoma with cardiogenic shock following a myocardial infarction: a case report [PDF]

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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Massive left atrial myxoma uncommon presentation in an aged Man, an educational case report and literature review [PDF]

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Background Cardiac myxomas are the most common primary tumors of the heart, although they remain rare overall, particularly in elderly male patients. Left atrial myxomas typically present with nonspecific constitutional symptoms or remain asymptomatic ...
Elaheh Karimi, Sara Montazeri Namin, Aysan Nozheh, Moshood Farooqi, Parnian Soltani, Tooba Akbari, Atefeh Lalvand, Pouya Ebrahimi, Mohammad Hossein Mandegar   +8 more
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Management of left atrial myxoma in pregnant women: a case series [PDF]

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Background Left atrial myxoma during pregnancy is rare. We present three cases in order to aid in the management. Case Presentation Three cases of left atrial myxoma during pregnancy were presented in this article.
Yanli Liu, Haiping Wang, Huanlei Huang, Fengzhen Han, Jian Zhuang, Yanqiu Ou, Yanyan Lin, Weina Zhang   +7 more
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Left atrial myxoma [PDF]

QJM, 2016
An 81-year-old independently functional woman with a history of congestive heart failure presented with acute shortness of breath. The day prior to the presentation she complained of mild shortness of breath while having dinner but went to sleep and woke up early morning with difficulty in breathing and chest discomfort.
V, Namana, R, Sarasam, R, Balasubramanian, J, Shani   +3 more
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