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Sporadic Cardiac Myxoma Involving All the Cardiac Chambers
Author(s) -
Oruganti Sai Satish,
Madhavapeddi Aditya,
Malempati Amaresh Rao,
Ramesh C. Mishra
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.112.105528
Subject(s) - medicine , myxoma , cardiothoracic surgery , general surgery , surgery
A thirty-two-year-old woman was admitted with complaints of fever, palpitations, and syncopal episodes for the last 3 months. On examination she was found to have elevated jugular venous pressure and pallor. Cardiovascular examination revealed loud first and second heart sounds with mid diastolic murmurs in mitral and tricuspid areas. ECG showed incomplete right bundle-branch block pattern. Transthoracic echocardiogram showed 4.5 × 4.6 cm size heterogenous intracardiac mass in right atrium (RA) attached to interatrial septum (Figure 1 and Movie I in the online-only Data Supplement). Two masses of similar echo texture were noted, 1 in the left atrium (LA; size 2.9 × 1.9 cms) attached …

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