whose autoregulation is already compromised by the acute stroke, f luctuations in cerebral perfusion pressure during the prolonged cardiac surgery risks additional vascular insults. The question is not whether it is safe to proceed with thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke in a patient harboring a cardiac myxoma; rather, it is the timing of the cardiac intervention which warrants care...

Left Atrial Myxoma as a Neurological Problem: A Case Report and Review • A puzzling neurological illness in a patient with a clinically normal heart was explained at autopsy by cerebral embolization from a left atrial myxoma (LAM). Constitutional symptoms associated with LAM were present. Cerebral angiography revealed aneurysms and focal areas of abnormal blushing. Cerebral and cardiac patholog...

BACKGROUND Atrial myxoma accounts for approximately 50% of all cardiac tumors. The majority of myxomas are located in the left atrium and present variable clinical manifestation. CASE PRESENTATION A young man was transferred to our hospital with sudden onset of resting pain, pallor and numb in right leg. An atrial mobile mass was detected by transthoracic echocardiography. Anticoagulant and a...

Myxoma, a rare type of intracardiac tumor, forms a very small percentage of the cardiac cases. Reports of biatrial myxoma are rarer, with cases of single tumor reaching both atria being more common. Here, we present an unusual case of two independently growing atrial myxoma in a 29-year-old female. We emphasize that early recognition of symptoms, confirmation of diagnosis by transesophageal ech...

BACKGROUND One of the most common cardiac tumors is myxoma. Despite its predominantly benign course, diverse cardiological, systemic as well as neurological complications have been reported. CASE REPORT We are the first from Poland to present the case of a patient with multiple central nervous system metastases associated with the left atrial myxoma. Various diagnostic, neuroradiological and ...

A 40 year-old athletic woman presented with worsening dyspnea on exertion over the preceding several months. Chest radiograph showed borderline cardiomegaly and subsequent echocardiography demonstrated a 5.0-cm left atrial mass as well as left-to-right interatrial shunting through a patent foramen ovale. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging was performed, which demonstrated signal characteristics...

cc This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A 22-year-old man presented with low-grade fever and hemoptysis of four month duration, a...

We describe the case of a 54-year-old man with no symptoms of a cardiac disease who, in the preoperative assessment for eye surgery was diagnosed to have a left atrial myxoma coupled with coronary artery disease. After thorough investigations, the patient underwent resection of the left atrial tumor and coronary artery bypass grafting with a succesful outcome. The histopathological examination ...

Cardiac myxoma (CM) is the most common type of benign primary cardiac tumor (1). Approximately more than half of primary cardiac tumors are myxomas (2). They are most commonly diagnosed between the age of 30 and 60 years (3). CM is described as a sporadic or familiar disorder in the literature (2, 3). A limited number of patients have been referred with the classical triad of obstructive cardia...

Atrial myxoma is the most common intracardiac tumor in adults, and 60% of all tumors are found by echocardiogram. Its protean clinical manifestations make the clinical diagnosis difficult. Atrial myxomas explain a minority of all strokes, but many embolize systemically and may cause cardiac symptoms and even paraneoplastic syndromes. Its management requires surgical excision. In this update, Dr...