Atrial myxoma can present with a variety of clinical pictures which may be suggestive of mitral stenosis or insufficiency. I They can also present with heart failure, fatigue and weight loss of rapid development in a middle aged patient with no history of rheumatic fever. 2 Most myxomas arise in the left atrium and less commonly in the right atrium. Left atrial myxomas predominantly arise from ...

We analyzed the echocardiograms of 28 patients with a left atrial myxoma and two with a right atrial myxoma. Our purpose was to evaluate the value of echocardiography for the diagnosis of these cardiac masses. Only 59% of the m-mode echocardiograms in patients with a left atrial myxoma showed the characteristic findings of multiple diastolic echoes within the mitral orifice as well as abnormal ...

Left atrial myxomas are commonly missed clinically and often lead to grave consequences. A high degree of suspicion is required for diagnosing myxomas clinically. We present here a series of three cases which presented with absolutely different clinical signs and came out to be myxomas on echocardiography. The first case was a female who presented with shortness of breath and anasacrca and was ...

Myxomas are the most common cardiac tumors, accounting for about 50% of benign primary cardiac tumors, with the majority located in the left atrium, and 80% of which originate in the interatrial septum. We report two cases with severe cachexia, neurological sequelae, and severe biventricle dysfunction secondary to atrial myxomas with marked early improvement after tumor excision.

Atrial myxomas are benign tumors, and most of them are located in the left atrium. Left atrial myxoma commonly leads to cerebral embolic ischemic stroke. The intracranial aneurysm is rarely associated with myxoma. There are few reports about left atrial myxoma leading simultaneously to both anterior and posterior circulation infarction, and multiple intracranial saccular aneurysms. Now we repor...

The left atrium is the most common location of myxomas, which are benign tumors. Only a few cases of myxomas in pregnancies have been reported. Our thorough medical literature search showed only 17 reported cases in the course of pregnancy. Myxomas during pregnancy and in the preterm period constitute a serious phenomenon that can mimic an early sign of a life-threatening pathology like severe ...

YXOMA is an infrequent but important LYE intracardiac lesion which occurs most often in the left atrium. Although it has been suggested that atrial myxomas merely represent degenerated thrombi, evidence strongly favors a neoplastic origin.1 Since the first successful removal of an intracardiac myxoma in 1955,2 numerous reports dealing with surgical resection of these tumors have appeared in the...

Constituting almost half of the cases of primary cardiac tumors (1), myxomas are frequently detected in adult female patients; moreover, familial patterns have also been identified for these tumors. The left atrium, right atrium, and ventricles are affected in 85%, 10%, and 5% of the cases, respectively. Furthermore, the fossa ovalis of the septum and the posterior atrial wall are common sites ...