A huge obstructive myxoma located in the right heart without causing any symptom

Abstract Cardiac myxoma is unusual and mostly located in left atrium. Although it is a benign tumor of the heart, it may cause life-threatening cardiac problems like valvular obstruction, systemic or pulmonary massive embolism, infection, arrhythmia, malignance. We report a huge cardiac myxoma origi...

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Published inInternational journal of cardiology Vol. 114; no. 3; pp. 405 - 406
Main Authors Yuce, Murat, Dagdelen, Sinan, Ergelen, Mehmet, Eren, Nevnihal, Caglar, Nuri
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Shannon Elsevier Ireland Ltd 18.01.2007
Elsevier Science
Subjects
Auscultation
Biological and medical sciences
Cardiology. Vascular system
Cardiovascular
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography
Epidemiology
General aspects
Heart Atria - pathology
Heart Neoplasms - diagnosis
Heart Neoplasms - surgery
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Myxoma - diagnosis
Myxoma - surgery
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Right atrial myxoma
Right atrial myxoma
Human
Genomics
Epidemiology
Obstruction
Phlebology
Scientific literature
Myxoma
Symptomatology
Right heart
Tumor
Circulatory system
Cardiology
Right atrium
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Summary:Abstract Cardiac myxoma is unusual and mostly located in left atrium. Although it is a benign tumor of the heart, it may cause life-threatening cardiac problems like valvular obstruction, systemic or pulmonary massive embolism, infection, arrhythmia, malignance. We report a huge cardiac myxoma originated from right atrium. It was moving between right atrium and ventricle without any symptoms.
ISSN:0167-5273
1874-1754
DOI:10.1016/j.ijcard.2005.11.086