Echocardiographic diagnosis of atrial myxoma may not always be straightforward, and the distinction between myxoma and thrombi is not easy, especially when we observe a mass after successful surgery. Our report describes a 72-year-old woman who presented with right upper limb hemiparesis and was subsequently diagnosed as having transient ischemic attack due to a left atrial myxoma. One month af...

Cardiac myxoma, the most prevalent primary cardiac tumor, is rare. The clinical features of this tumor are principally intracardiac obstruction, extracardiac embolism, and general symptoms including fever, myalgia, arthralgia. Although cutaneous manifestations in patients with cardiac myxoma are frequent, in rare cases, cutaneous signs have been clues to the correct diagnosis. We report a 42-ye...

Coexisting coronary atherosclerosis and coronary embolization of tumor fragments causing myocardial ischemia are well‐known reasons for ventricular dysfunction in patients with left atrial myxoma. The incidence of coronary artery disease in patients with myxoma is between 20.3% and 36.6%.[2,3] Other proposed explanations for the left ventricular dysfunction in such patients were hypercoagulabil...

LEFT atrial myxoma is the commonest primary cardiac tumour and the clinical features are well documented (Yater, 1931; Goodwin, 1964). The technique of mitral echocardiography using ultra-sound waves generated by a piezo-electric transducer directed at the anterior cusp of the mitral valve was first described in 1954 by Edler & Hertz. Effert & Domanig (1959) showed that echoes arising from a le...

BACKGROUND To retrospectively evaluate mitral valve abnormality in left atrial myxoma patients by using cardiac computed tomography (CT). MATERIAL AND METHODS Cardiac CT was performed in 56 patients with left atrial myxoma and 50 controls. Tumor and mitral valve characteristics were analyzed. The mitral valve parameters differences were compared between patients with myxoma and controls, myxo...

We report a case of myxoma with multiple recurrences in both the atrium and ventricle in a 26-year-old woman five years after the surgical removal of left atrial myxoma. Her 52-year-old mother had a similar medical history. To our knowledge, this was the first familial case who suffered multifocal cardiac myxoma recurrences without any sign of the myxoma complex. Based on our understanding of t...

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.

Atrial myxoma is a benign tumor of the heart that occurs primarily in the left atrium. Floating or large left atrial myxomas frequently cause functional mitral stenosis, may also affect mitral valve structure and flow, and lead to mitral regurgitation. Systemic embolization occurs in around 30% of cases either from tumor fragmentation or complete tumor detachment hence it should be removed as s...

Cardiac myxoma is a benign (non-malignant) neoplasm that represents the most common primary tumour of the heart. We present the case of a 36 year old woman with background hypertension who presented with features of left ventricular failure and seizures, and was found during transthoracic echocardiography to have left atrial myxoma protruding through the mitral valve orifice. She subsequently h...