An echocardiographic-confirmed case of atrial myxoma causing cerebral embolic ischemic stroke: a case report

A myxoma is the most common primary tumor of the heart. It has been reported as the source of a cardiogenic embolism. Therefore, it is important for clinicians to detect the myxoma early via echocardiography to prevent complications, such as syncope, sudden death, and cerebral embolic ischemic strok...

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Autores principales: Yoo, Minwook, Graybeal, Dion F
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2531170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18706121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-96
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description A myxoma is the most common primary tumor of the heart. It has been reported as the source of a cardiogenic embolism. Therefore, it is important for clinicians to detect the myxoma early via echocardiography to prevent complications, such as syncope, sudden death, and cerebral embolic ischemic stroke. This report presents the case of a 54-year-old female whose clinical manifestation of atrial myxoma was an ischemic stroke. Atrial myxoma was later confirmed as the cause of her symptoms via transesophageal echocardiography.
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spelling pubmed-25311702008-09-07 An echocardiographic-confirmed case of atrial myxoma causing cerebral embolic ischemic stroke: a case report Yoo, Minwook Graybeal, Dion F Cases J Case Report A myxoma is the most common primary tumor of the heart. It has been reported as the source of a cardiogenic embolism. Therefore, it is important for clinicians to detect the myxoma early via echocardiography to prevent complications, such as syncope, sudden death, and cerebral embolic ischemic stroke. This report presents the case of a 54-year-old female whose clinical manifestation of atrial myxoma was an ischemic stroke. Atrial myxoma was later confirmed as the cause of her symptoms via transesophageal echocardiography. BioMed Central 2008-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2531170/ /pubmed/18706121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-96 Text en Copyright © 2008 Yoo and Graybeal; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title An echocardiographic-confirmed case of atrial myxoma causing cerebral embolic ischemic stroke: a case report
title_full An echocardiographic-confirmed case of atrial myxoma causing cerebral embolic ischemic stroke: a case report
title_fullStr An echocardiographic-confirmed case of atrial myxoma causing cerebral embolic ischemic stroke: a case report
title_full_unstemmed An echocardiographic-confirmed case of atrial myxoma causing cerebral embolic ischemic stroke: a case report
title_short An echocardiographic-confirmed case of atrial myxoma causing cerebral embolic ischemic stroke: a case report
title_sort echocardiographic-confirmed case of atrial myxoma causing cerebral embolic ischemic stroke: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2531170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18706121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-96
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