Massive right atrial myxoma with dyspnea at rest in an elderly patient: A case report | Zendy

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Massive right atrial myxoma with dyspnea at rest in an elderly patient: A case report

Author(s) -

Radoslav Romanović,

Nenad Ratković,

Zaklina Davicevic,

Radoje Ilić

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

vojnosanitetski pregled

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 2406-0720

pISSN - 0042-8450

DOI - 10.2298/vsp140212031r

Subject(s) - medicine , right atrial myxoma , pericardial effusion , intracardiac injection , myxoma , ventricle , cardiology , tricuspid valve , heart failure , heart murmur , right heart , differential diagnosis , surgery , radiology , pathology

Primary heart tumors are extremely rare and myxoma is the most common type of these tumors. Although intra-atrial presentation is a predilection place, right atrial localization is atypical. The symptom triad is characteristic in the clinical presentation of the tumor: embolic complication, intracardiac blood flow obstruction and systemic manifestations like elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, fever, anemia, body weight loss.

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