Objective This paper reports a 20 years' experience in the management of atrial myxomas at our institution. Apart from presenting our experience of their clinical presentation, surgical management, post-operative complication, and long-term follow-up we investigated any correlation between left and right sided tumor with their symptom of presentation. Materials and Methods The data were retro...

Myxomas are the most common type of primary benign cardiac tumor in adults, with an incidence about 0.2 % population at autopsy. develop from multipotent mesenchyme and usually undifferentiated, pedunculated atrial mass attached to a fossa ovale on left side septum. Frequent asymptomatic course disease complicates timely diagnosis treatment. The presented clinical observation demonstrates accid...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC Cardiac myxomas are the most common primary cardiac tumors, accounting for approximately 50% of all such tumors [1-3]. Around 75% of cardiac myxomas are detected in the left atrium (LA), and 15-20% in the right atrium (RA). Most myxomas arise from the interatrial septum at the fossa ovalis, but in some cases, myxomas have been reported to be atta...

Cardiac myxomas are the most common primary benign tumors of uncertain etiology. They usually present as polypoid or oval-shaped masses projecting into a heart chamber from the interatrial septum and have a soft, gelatinous consistency without a cystic structure. We report a case of left atrial myxoma with a single cystic form.

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 myxomas are rare. The clinical diagnosis of an atrial myxoma may occur in an asymptomatic patient but may also present with cardiac failure, syncope, arrythmias, or with vascular evidence of tumour embolisation. The delay in diagnosis from presentation is approximately ten months. We present the case of a 53-year-old woman who attended our Emergency Department with dyspnoea, fatigue and...

A TRIAL myxomas can be successfully removed.1-5 Apparently left atrial myxonlas are infrequent and those in the right atrium are approximately 25 per cent as common.6 Bahnson and Newman7 in 1953 reported the first removal of a right atrial myxoma and since that times 4 others have been operated upon. Ripstein8 in 1953 attempted unsuccessfully to remove a right atrial myxoma through the open rig...