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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, Yoichi Hisata, Tomohiro Odate, Takafumi Yamada   +3 more
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Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Acute Cardioembolic Stroke in Young Female: A Rare Case Report [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Left atrial myxoma is the most common primary cardiac tumour and a rare but important cause of cardioembolic stroke. This is a case report of a 22-year-old married female who presented with history of sudden-onset right-sided weakness and difficulty in ...
Ronak Prakashkumar Shah, Parth Rohitkumar Shah, Mittal Sindhav   +2 more
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Robotic Left Atrial Myxoma Resection

, 2023
In this video, the author demonstrates a robotic left atrial myxoma resection. The author uses the same approach for all valve operations including AVRs and MV repairs, and an identical approach for HOCM.
Tristan D. Yan (4043291), Joel Dunning (4043288)   +1 more
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Infected Left Atrial Myxoma.

Internal Medicine, 2002
A 47-year-old Japanese woman with a continuing high fever was promptly diagnosed as having infected atrial myxoma one day after admission based on transthoracic echocardiographic findings and positivity for bacteria in blood culture. The mass was removed by an urgent open heart surgery.
UCHINO, Kazuaki, MOCHIDA, Yasuyuki, EBINA, Toshiaki, TOBE, Michio, KOBAYASHI, Shunichi, YANO, Yoshimi, KOBAYASHI, Tsukasa, NAKAZAWA, Ichiro, ISHIKAWA, Toshiyuki, KIMURA, Kazuo, TAKANASHI, Yoshinori, UMEMURA, Satoshi   +11 more
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Atypical vessels as an early sign of intracardiac myxoma?

Cardiovascular Ultrasound, 2004
We report on a woman with previously unknown left atrial myxoma, who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention. 45 months after the initial coronary angiography, echocardiography demonstrated a large atrial myxoma, which was not seen ...
Rutsch Wolfgang, Konertz Wolfgang, Gliech Volker, Knebel Fabian, Dübel Hans-Peter, Baumann Gert, Borges Adrian   +6 more
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Case report: Left atrial myxoma with morphology of cavernous hemangioma supplied by the right coronary artery

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023
Here, we report an unusual case of left atrial myxoma presented with morphology of cavernous hemangioma supplied by the right coronary artery. Surgical resection of the left atrium myxoma was performed, and the patient experienced an uneventful recovery ...
Shouji Zhang, Shouji Zhang, Junlin Wang, Fahang Song, Fahang Song, Fan Yang, Fang Li, Fang Li, Shangxin Liu, Jiwei Ma, Haizhou Zhang, Haizhou Zhang, Xiaochun Ma, Xiaochun Ma   +13 more
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A case of left atrial myxoma accompanied by pancytopenia and pathological findings suggestive of pulmonary hypertension

, 1974
A case of left atrial myxoma accompanied by peculiar symptoms is reported. A 15-year old boy had progressive congestive heart failure and three episodes of acute attacks of panctyopenia. The anemia was accompanied by helmet-shaped, broken red blood cells,
Ogawa, Katsuo, Ofuji, Tadashi, Sato, Keiichiro, Kawanishi, Koichi   +3 more
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Giant Left Atrial Myxoma Resection

, 2020
In this video, the authors present the surgical resection of a left atrial myxoma. The patient was an 84-year-old woman who was admitted at a regional hospital for recent onset of effort dyspnea (NYHA functional class 3).
Thomas Theologou (5451515), Enrico Ferrari (35612), Francesca Toto (8680873), Giorgio Franciosi (8680870), Michele Gallo (2039071), Tiziano Torre (5681435), Giuseppina Surace (8680876), Stefanos Demertzis (5833280)   +7 more
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“Simply Amazing and Fantastic”: The Maude Abbott Medical Museum Visitor Book, 2018–2023

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Maude Abbott Medical Museum has a collection of human remains which we believe is appropriate to preserve and use for teaching and research. We wondered to what extent our visitors feel the same way. We categorized all entries in our museum visitor book for 5 years into five groups based on specific words or phrases.
Rick Fraser
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple arterial embolization from left atrial myxoma in a Maltese boy [PDF]

, 1994
Atrial myxoma is rare in adults and even rarer in children. In this article the author describes. The presentation may be with embolic, obstructive or constitutional symptoms, which may be dramatic and life-threatening.
Elliott, Martin, Vassallo Agius, Paul
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