Primary tumours of the heart are rare (Yater, 1931) and can present difficult diagnostic problems. Not only do they simulate valvular disease of the heart, but they are sometimes accompanied by a non-specific syndrome of fever, anemia, clubbing of the fingers and toes, hemoptysis, and a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). This may be very difficult to distinguish from subacute bacteria...

Results There were 31 patients who underwent surgery. Their age ranged from 15 years to 69 years with a mean age of 43.2 years. The majority (71%) were females. The main presenting symptoms were shortness of breath (43.5%) and stroke (34.8%). No one died from the surgery and no one suffered significant morbidity. All patients had myxomas in the left atrium where majority were attached to the in...

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...

Cerebral aneurysms are well known to be associated with cardiac myxomas. The mechanism of cerebral aneurysm formation remains to be elucidated. Embolization of tumor particles in the vessel wall has been proposed as the likely mechanism for aneurysm formation. Recent reports suggest interleukin-6 (IL-6) may play a role as well. We describe a patient who presented with subarachnoid hemorrhage se...

Hemangioma of the heart, presenting as a primary cardiac tumor is extremely rare; it accounts for approximately 2% of all primary resected heart tumors. In our patient, the tumor was located in the orifice of the right lower pulmonary vein. Few cases of cardiac hemangiomas have been reported to arise from the left atrial (LA) wall. Left atrial hemangiomas, especially those attached to the LA wa...

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...

Atrial myxomatous embolization into the coronary arteries is a rare event. Management of large myxomas is usually via surgical resection involving a median sternotomy. Echocardiography is not a routine part of non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) management. Here, we present the case of a 70-year-old Caucasian man with a history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia who presented to the...

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...

Intracardiac myxoma is the most frequent benign tumour of the heart. Although most (75%) are located in the left atrium (LA), myxomas are also found in the right atrium (18%), right ventricle (4%), and left ventricle (3%).They occur in all age groups, most frequently between third and sixth decade, while it is rare in the ninth decade [1,2]. Left atrial myxoma(LAM) is histologically benign and ...