PRIMARY intracardiac tumors of the heart are rare. The commonest primary tumor is myxoma, found almost exclusively in the atria, 75 or mnore occurring in the left atrium. Mahaim' reported 200 primary cardiac tumors in 1945, from the world literature up to that time. Strauss and Merliss2 reviewed 480,331 autopsies from the Los Angeles County Hospital and were able to report 8 cases of myxoma occ...

A 67-year-old asymptomatic male was admitted for evaluation of his arterial hypertension. The routine echocardiographic study revealed a large tumour in the dilated right atrium. The mass appeared to arise from the posterior wall of the right atrium. After infusion of a contrast agent, the mass appeared to fill with the contrast agent, ruling out the possibility of the mass being a clot. Transe...

PRIMARY intracardiac tumors of the heart are rare. The commonest primary tumor is myxoma, found almost exclusively in the atria, 75 or mnore occurring in the left atrium. Mahaim' reported 200 primary cardiac tumors in 1945, from the world literature up to that time. Strauss and Merliss2 reviewed 480,331 autopsies from the Los Angeles County Hospital and were able to report 8 cases of myxoma occ...

Myxomas, the most common primary cardiac tumors, are known as a source of cardiogenic emboli. The possibility of their early detection has made them of great importance for emergency medicines. Detection of the disease is probable at early stages using echocardiography and associate complications such as syncope, cerebral embolic ischemic strokes, and sudden death. We report experience of a rar...

Myxomas occupying multiple chambers of the heart are extremely rare, being more common in familial cases. Recurrence of these tumors after surgical excision is also a rare condition, observed in about 3% of patients in sporadic cases. Systemic embolization especially to the brain is one of the common presentations of cardiac myxomas apart from intracardiac obstruction and systemic symptoms. We ...

THIS IMAGING VIGNETTE DESCRIBES THE ASSOCIATION OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS WITH clinical course, dividing myxomas on the basis of size (Figure 1), morphology (Figure 2), and location (Figure 3) in 378 patients with complete excision of cardiac myxoma in a single center in our hospital. Large size was associated with cardiac symptoms (p < 0.005), polypoid type was associated with embolic symp...

INTRODUCTION Left atrial myxomas are rare benign tumors of the heart. They vary widely in size, and very little is known about their growth rate. The reported growth rates of left atrial myxomas from several published case reports appears to vary from no growth, to between 1.3 to 6.9 mm/month in diameter within patients with established myxoma who have not undergone surgery. CASE PRESENTATION...

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...

Primary malignant tumors of the heart, specifically cardiac sarcomas, are rare and mainly diagnosed at autopsy. Acute Budd-Chiari syndrome is a recognized cause of acute liver failure and has been associated with several rare cardiac tumors: atrial myxoma, caval rhabdomyosarcoma, and primary cardiac adenocarcinoma. We present the first case of a fatal, highly differentiated cardiac synovial sar...