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A Rare Case of Massive Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Syncope
We report a rare case of a large left atrial myxoma that manifested as syncope in a patient who presented to the hospital following a syncopal episode. Our patient had a history of hypertension and anemia with reported two months of dyspnea on exertion. He was found to have a large left atrial myxom...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10388804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37529806 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41249 |
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author | Kurnick, Adam Burkhanova, Umida Friedman, Adam John, Sabu Bukharovich, Inna |
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description | We report a rare case of a large left atrial myxoma that manifested as syncope in a patient who presented to the hospital following a syncopal episode. Our patient had a history of hypertension and anemia with reported two months of dyspnea on exertion. He was found to have a large left atrial myxoma. Atrial myxomas are the most common benign primary cardiac tumors. Patients may be asymptomatic or experience shortness of breath, palpitations, syncope, or sudden death. Cases of syncope caused by left atrial myxoma have been rarely documented. Our case report adds to the growing literature documenting this phenomenon. Larger observational studies are needed to properly define the incidence of left atrial myxoma causing syncope. |
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spelling | pubmed-103888042023-08-01 A Rare Case of Massive Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Syncope Kurnick, Adam Burkhanova, Umida Friedman, Adam John, Sabu Bukharovich, Inna Cureus Cardiology We report a rare case of a large left atrial myxoma that manifested as syncope in a patient who presented to the hospital following a syncopal episode. Our patient had a history of hypertension and anemia with reported two months of dyspnea on exertion. He was found to have a large left atrial myxoma. Atrial myxomas are the most common benign primary cardiac tumors. Patients may be asymptomatic or experience shortness of breath, palpitations, syncope, or sudden death. Cases of syncope caused by left atrial myxoma have been rarely documented. Our case report adds to the growing literature documenting this phenomenon. Larger observational studies are needed to properly define the incidence of left atrial myxoma causing syncope. Cureus 2023-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10388804/ /pubmed/37529806 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41249 Text en Copyright © 2023, Kurnick et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Cardiology Kurnick, Adam Burkhanova, Umida Friedman, Adam John, Sabu Bukharovich, Inna A Rare Case of Massive Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Syncope |
title | A Rare Case of Massive Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Syncope |
title_full | A Rare Case of Massive Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Syncope |
title_fullStr | A Rare Case of Massive Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Syncope |
title_full_unstemmed | A Rare Case of Massive Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Syncope |
title_short | A Rare Case of Massive Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Syncope |
title_sort | rare case of massive left atrial myxoma presenting as syncope |
topic | Cardiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10388804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37529806 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41249 |
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