Atrial myxoma is the most common primary cardiac tumor. Its clinical presentation spreads from asymptomatic incidental mass to serious life-threatening cardiovascular complications. We report the case of a 44-year-old man with evening fever and worsening dyspnea in the last weeks, admitted to our hospital for acute pulmonary edema. The cardiac auscultation was very suspicious for mitral valve s...

A case of left atrial myxoma is reported in a 14-year-old female patient with recurrent episodes of syncope. The patient was immediately referred to the cardiologist after an inconclusive neurological investigation. Syncope is a symptom thoroughly described as being associated with heart myxomas, but its specific association with adolescence is extremely rare. The authors discuss the clinical m...

C ardiac myxomas, usually benign, arise from multipotential mesenchymal cells in the heart.’ In the past, cardiac myxoma could only be diagnosed at With the present widespread use of angiography and echocardiography, a correct diagnosis can be made during life, and surgery may be performed.34 The reported time elapsed between the onset of symptoms and the correct diagnosis ranges from 2 to 84 m...

A TRIAL myxomas can be successfully removed.1-5 Apparently left atrial myxonlas are infrequent and those in the right atrium are approximately 25 per cent as common.6 Bahnson and Newman7 in 1953 reported the first removal of a right atrial myxoma and since that times 4 others have been operated upon. Ripstein8 in 1953 attempted unsuccessfully to remove a right atrial myxoma through the open rig...

Intra-cavitary cardiac tumours are rare and a high index of suspicion is required on the part of the physician to make the clinical diagnosis. With the advent of two dimensional real time echocardiography this diagnosis can be easily and rapidly confirmed. Over the past two decades M-mode echocardiography has been widely used for the diagnosis of left atrial myxomas. Though it has been shown to...

A 21-year-old woman developed left hemiparesis during work and was hospitalized. Her National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score was 4. Hyperintense areas in the left basal ganglia, corona radiata, and cortex of the temporal lobe were found by brain diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, indicating acute cerebral infarction. Echocardiography showed a giant mass of diameter 7 × 4 cm...

The incidence rate of Primary cardiac lymphoma is very low. Primary cardiac lymphoma within myxoma is extremely rare disease. So far, these cases have been reported only eight in the world, which has not reported in Chinese so far. Hence, we reported the unique Chinese case of 52-year-old immunocompetent male with primary Epstein-Barr virus positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma arising within ...

A TRIAL myxomas can be successfully removed.1-5 Apparently left atrial myxonlas are infrequent and those in the right atrium are approximately 25 per cent as common.6 Bahnson and Newman7 in 1953 reported the first removal of a right atrial myxoma and since that times 4 others have been operated upon. Ripstein8 in 1953 attempted unsuccessfully to remove a right atrial myxoma through the open rig...

In the course of the evaluation of five patients with left atrial myxoma, it was noted that the movement of the myxoma was related to specific changes in left atrial hemodynamics. Prolapsing tumors, Type I, move from the left ventricle to the left atrium in early systole and from the left atrium to the left ventricle in early diastole, thereby causing prominent c and v waves accompanied by a ra...