scholarly journals Right atrial myxoma presenting as a pulmonary embolism in a 32-year-old female

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 204800401881760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amitabh C Pandey ◽  
John J Carey ◽  
Jess L Thompson

Primary cardiac tumors are typically benign, with myxomas being most common. We present a 32-year-old female with a chief complaint of dyspnea and a constant non-radiating chest pressure along the left sternal border. She was found to have a pulmonary embolism that was ultimately caused by embolization of a right atrial myxoma with remnants of a large, highly mobile mass attached to the right inter-atrial septum prolapsing through the tricuspid valve. The patient underwent a median sternotomy, right atrial mass resection, pulmonary embolectomy, and inter-atrial septum reconstruction using the patient’s pericardium. The importance of finding the etiology of initial diagnoses is stressed with long-term outcomes for patients.

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1444
Author(s):  
Dileep Kumar Singh Rathor ◽  
Narender Singh Jhajhria ◽  
V. K. Gupta

Primary intracardiac tumors are rare and approximately 50% are myxomas. Majority of myxomas are located in left atrium. Most of myxomas are attached to inter-atrial septum and have variable clinical presentation depending on size, location and mobility of the tumor. We report a case of large myxoma in the right atrium with atypical clinical presentation and location for this type of tumor.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-204
Author(s):  
Yichao Xiao ◽  
Zhenfei Fang ◽  
Xinqun Hu ◽  
Qiming Liu ◽  
Zhaowei Zhu ◽  
...  

Cardiac myxomas, the commonest primary benign cardiac tumors, are extremely rare, with an incidence ranging from 0.0017 to 0.19% and only about one-fifth of them originating from the right chambers of the heart. A 60-year-old woman was admitted because of recurrent attacks of chest tightness and shortness of breath. Transthoracic echocardiography detected a giant mass in the right atrium; myxoma was indicated by [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT. Preoperative selective coronary angiography was performed to assess the extent and severity of coronary stenosis, and showed a strongly neovascularized right atrial mass supplied by two feeding vessels with multiple branches from the left and right coronary arteries. The myxoma was successfully excised with open heart surgery and the patient was free of myxoma recurrence during the 3-year follow-up.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Mohammad Altujjar ◽  
Feras Zaeim ◽  
Erin Sheehan ◽  
Wily Gan ◽  
Mohammed Mhanna ◽  
...  

Primary cardiac tumors are extremely rare. Cardiac myxomas most frequently appear in the left atrium. In this article, we present a case of an asymptomatic 6 cm right atrial mass in a patient undergoing staging for endometrial cancer. The mass was resected, and final pathology was consistent with cardiac myxoma.


2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 512-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasa Hinic ◽  
Jelena Saric ◽  
Predrag Milojevic ◽  
Jelena Gavrilovic ◽  
Tijana Durmic ◽  
...  

Introduction. Myxoma is the most common primary benign heart tumor. The most frequent location is the left atrium, the chamber of the heart that receives oxygen- rich blood from the lungs. Myxomas usually develop in women, typically between the ages of 40 and 60. Symptoms may occur at any time, but most often they are asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic for a long period of time. Symptoms usually go along with body position, and are related to compression of the heart cavities, embolization and the appearance of general symptoms. The diagnosis of benign tumors of the heart is based on anamnesis, clinical features and findings of the tumor masses by use of non-invasive and invasive imaging methods. Extensive surgical resection of the myxoma is curative with minimal mortality. Long term clinical and echocardiographic follow-up is mandatory. Case report. We reported a case of a 62-year-old male, presented with 15 days of intermittent shortness of breath, dizziness and feeling of heart palpitations and subsequently diagnosed with right atrial myxoma based on transthoracic echocardiography . The patient was emergently operated in our hospital. Long-term followup did not reveal recurrence. Conclusion. Our case was an atypical localisation of right atrial myxoma. Whether the intracardiac mass is benign or malignant, early surgery is obligatory in order to prevent complications.


Cureus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aref Obagi ◽  
Dhaval Desai ◽  
Usman Mazahir ◽  
David Johnson ◽  
Lance Berger

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 2050313X1984146
Author(s):  
Andres Beiras-Fernandez ◽  
Angela Kornberger ◽  
Hazem El-Beyrouti ◽  
Christian-Friedrich Vahl

We report the case of a patient with a giant right atrial myxoma that remained clinically silent until it almost completely obliterated the right atrium, prolapsed into the right ventricle and obstructed the tricuspid valve inflow. This case illustrates the importance of rapid surgical intervention in the setting of acute heart failure caused by tumor masses obliterating heart valves or cardiac chambers.


2000 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 0061-0063 ◽  
Author(s):  
Messaoud L. Idir ◽  
Nicolas L. Oysel ◽  
Jean-Philippe L. Guibaud ◽  
Eric L. Labouyrie ◽  
Raymond L. Roudaut

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