Myxomas are the most common primary tumors of the heart. We report an extraordinary severe case of left atrial myxoma, presenting with stroke, myocardial infarction, and multiple arterial embolism including aorta, splenic and renal arteries, and several peripheral arteries. The patient had previously been diagnosed with systemic vasculitis, a typical but less common finding caused by multiple e...

OBJECTIVE In this study, 12 patients who were diagnosed as having cardiac tumours and were operated on in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery following referral from the Department of Cardiology were enrolled between January 1995 and October 2007. METHODS The symptoms, clinical findings, diagnostic methods, localisation of masses and surgical applications were recorded retrospectively. ...

Myxomas are the most common primary cardiac neoplasms. The prevalence of tumors at autopsy ranges from 0.001% to 0.3%. More than 50% benign myxomas. Approximately 7% these have genetic origin and arise as a component heritable disorder with some clinical manifestations. Over 72% benign. In adults, majority lesions Its manifestations variable nonspecific. Commonly observed symptoms signs dyspnea...

INTRODUCTION Carney complex is a multiple neoplasia syndrome involving cardiac, endocrine, neural and cutaneous tumors with a variety of pigmented skin lesions. It has an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. Approximately 7% of cardiac myxomas are related to the Carney complex. Myxomas that occur as part of the Carney complex affect both sexes with equal frequency. Cardiac myxomas with Carne...

Emboli from left atrial myxomas are a recognized cause of cerebral ischaemia. The myxomatous embolus may infiltrate the cerebral arterial wall, resulting in aneurysmal dilatation with a risk of rupture. Myxoma-associated cerebral haemorrhage has been described in patients with progressive neurological dysfunction. We report a new presentation. Our patient, a previously healthy 20 year old girl,...

Left atrial myxomas are a rare but well known cause of cerebrovascular accidents in young people. Cerebral embolism is the most common cause of cerebral ischemic stroke. The intracranial aneurysm is rarely associated with myxoma. We report the case of a patient who had an operation of PICA aneurysm due to subarachnoid hemorrhage ten months before the discovery of the large left atrial myxoma. F...

BACKGROUND Myxomas arising from the eustachian valve are exceedingly rare. CASE REPORT A 72-year-old Jamaican-Chinese woman was evaluated for worsening dyspnea. The 2-dimensional and real time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiogram showed a 75 mm length × 44 mm width, multilobulated, mobile mass arising from the eustachian valve occupying the entire right atrial and right ventricular ca...

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...

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...

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...