Open Access“Double ball valve mechanism obstructing both right ventricular inflow and outflow”: Atypical presentation of right atrial myxoma presenting as right ventricular mass
Author(s) -
Tarun Kumar,
Satyam Rajvanshi,
Ajay Sharma,
Neeraj Pandit
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
heart views
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-5123
pISSN - 1995-705X
DOI - 10.4103/heartviews.heartviews_28_17
Subject(s) - medicine , myxoma , differential diagnosis , transthoracic echocardiogram , presentation (obstetrics) , right heart , case presentation , right atrial myxoma , cardiac tumors , radiology , surgery , cardiology , resection , pathology
Large intracavitary masses such as those occupying most of a cardiac chamber and obstructing blood flow are not routinely encountered in clinical practice. The differential diagnosis includes neoplastic as well as nonneoplastic causes. Primary cardiac tumors by themselves are uncommon. We hereby report a rare case of a middle-aged female presenting with New York Heart Association Class III symptoms, whose transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a huge mass in right-sided chambers with a novel double ball valve type movement. She successfully underwent urgent surgical resection of the mass with histopathological confirmation of diagnosis.