Asymptomatic Left Atrial Myxoma Treated With Minimally Invasive Surgical Approach
Cureus, 2021 Myxomas, being the most common primary benign tumor among all cardiac tumors, occur rarely with a very low incidence rate. Myxomas can cause various clinical manifestations or can be diagnosed incidentally.
Tetyana Okan +11 more
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Determination of residual mass in left ventricle by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography after a giant and floating left atrial myxoma resection [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia, 2018 Atrial myxoma is a benign tumor of the heart that occurs primarily in the left atrium. Floating or large left atrial myxomas frequently cause functional mitral stenosis, may also affect mitral valve structure and flow, and lead to mitral regurgitation ...
Ali Sait Kavakli, Nilgun Kavrut Ozturk
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Cardiac myxoma: The influence of surgical technique on long-term prognosis [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2012 The aim of our study was to analyze the influence of different surgical techniques (left atriotomy, right atriotomy, biatrial approach and tumor basis solving) on early and late outcomes of patients operated on for cardiac myxoma.
Mikić A. +8 more
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Left atrial myxoma with left ventricular myxoma diagnosed by ultrasound examination
Medicine, 2021 Rationale: Left ventricular (LV) myxoma is a rare type of benign cardiac tumor, which may result in unfavorable consequences due to embolism, arrhythmia, obstruction to the outflow tract, and other constitutional symptoms.
X. Ji, Xia Zhang
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Giant left atrial myxoma causing mitral regurgitation through annulus dilatation
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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Giant left atrial myxoma – literature review and case presentation
Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie, 2021 Primary cardiac tumors are an extremely rare pathology, representing only 5–10% of cardiac neoplasms, but among them, the most common are cardiac myxomas, that appear to originate from multipotent mesenchymal cells of the subendocardial and endocardial ...
V. Raicea +5 more
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Radiotherapy-Induced Atrial Myxoma: A Case Report and Literature Review
Life, 2023 In this particular case study, we present a 66-year-old male who was diagnosed with an atrial myxoma eight years after receiving treatment for non-small cell lung cancer.
Walid Shalata +7 more
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An exceptionally giant left atrial myxoma: a case report and literature review
European Heart Journal: Case Reports, 2020 Background Cardiac myxomas are considered the most common benign heart tumours. The clinical manifestations mainly depend on the size of the tumour.
Bassil Al-Zamkan +3 more
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Neuropathology (Kyoto. 1993), 2020 Systemic embolization has been reported in up to 40% of patients with left atrial myxoma, half of them with cerebral involvement. However, development of intracerebral embolization associated with parenchymal seeding of the myxoma emboli is an extremely ...
Cristian Aguilar +5 more
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30-year follow-up of an unoperated left atrial myxoma: a case report
European Heart Journal: Case Reports, 2020 Background Cardiac myxomas are the most common benign primary cardiac tumours. The natural history of left cardiac myxomas is thought to be of slowly growing tumours. Cardiac myxomas are a heterogeneous group with a variable growth rate.
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