We report a rare case of large left atrial myxoma that manifested as syncope in patient who presented to the hospital following syncopal episode. Our had history hypertension and anemia with reported two months dyspnea on exertion. He was found have myxoma. Atrial myxomas are most common benign primary cardiac tumors. Patients may be asymptomatic or experience shortness breath, palpitations, sy...

Although myxoma is a rare benign tumor, it is the most common benign tumor of the heart. It is predominantly observed in the left atrium (LA). A 38-year-old male patient was admitted to our clinic with exertional dyspnea. Transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a mass in the LA, and transesophageal echocardiogram confirmed a 16x 17-mm sized, spherical-shaped mass in the LA (Fig. 1, Video 1). The ...

Cardiac myxoma is a rare but curable cause of ischemic stroke. Current guidelines do not address the use of intravenous thrombolysis for embolic stroke caused by cardiac myxoma. The risk of hemorrhage due to occult tumor emboli or microaneurysms is a major concern. We describe a 45-year-old man who had an embolic stroke in the left middle cerebral artery. The initial National Institutes of Heal...

Background: Atrial myxoma is uncommon and may be associated with brief isolated ischemic events. We describe a patient with atrial myxoma and an incompletely evaluated ischemic stroke followed 1 year later with almost complete brain necrosis. Summary ofReport: A 63-year-old woman presented with a rapidly progressive illness resulting in coma within 24 hours from multiple myxomatous emboli. Cran...

BACKGROUND Atrial myxoma is an uncommon cause of hemiplegia in children. However hemiplegia is the commonest manifestation of atrial myxoma in the paediatric age group. CASE REPORT An 11-year-old girl presented with left hemiplegia and palpitations. Three months later she had a deepvein thrombosis of the right common iliac vein. MRI of the brain showed a subacute right thalamic infarct, and a...

Soft tissue sarcoma (STS) with an infiltrative histologic growth pattern, when compared to STS with an expansile pattern, may pose difficulties in local control. Preoperative assessment of the presence of infiltrative histologic growth pattern would be helpful in deciding treatment strategies. A review of 144 patients who underwent surgery for extremity STS was performed. Microscopically, the h...

Mailing address: Mariana Couto Vasconcelos • Serviço de Cardiologia do Hospital São João Alameda Professor Hernani Monteiro, 4200/319 Porto Portugal E-mail: [email protected] Manuscript received April 22, 2007; revised manuscript received May 15, 2007; accepted May 15, 2007.

A 60 year-old male was referred for treatment of a cardiac myxoma in the right atrium. He had a past history of left atrial cardiac myxoma at age 49 and pituitary microadenoma related to acromegaly at age 55. He did not have a family history of cardiac neoplasm or endocrinopathy. The intracardiac tumor was resected and its pathology was compatible with myxoma. A diagnosis of Carney complex (CNC...

INTRODUCTION Seventy-five percent of primary cardiac tumors are benign, and most are myxomas. Seventy-five percent of myxomas originate from the left atrium, and 2.5% arise from the left ventricle. Heart failure is a rare complication of myxoma. CASE A 54-year-old male patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was admitted to the pulmonology department with a diagnosis of pneumonia a...

BACKGROUND Cardiac myxoma is the most common benign heart tumor which can arise in any of the cardiac chambers, valves or related great veins. Diagnosis of a myxoma arising from the tricuspid valve apparatus is exceptional. We present a rare case of myxoma in a tricuspid valve attached to papillary muscle. CASE DETAILS A 45-year-old man was referred to our center for the evaluation dyspnea an...