Stroke from A Large Left Atrial Myxoma

A 36-year-old male involved in a car accident was found to have an embolic stroke due to a left atrial myxoma. Open heart surgery was delayed 4 weeks to decrease the risk of neurologic complications from the anticoagulation required for cardiopulmonary bypass. After resection of the myxoma, intraope...

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Autores principales: Hirose, Hitoshi, Youdelman, Benjamin A, Entwistle, John W. C
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19430521
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192400802010115
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description A 36-year-old male involved in a car accident was found to have an embolic stroke due to a left atrial myxoma. Open heart surgery was delayed 4 weeks to decrease the risk of neurologic complications from the anticoagulation required for cardiopulmonary bypass. After resection of the myxoma, intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography found severe mitral regurgitation, which was repaired.
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spelling pubmed-26275252009-05-08 Stroke from A Large Left Atrial Myxoma Hirose, Hitoshi Youdelman, Benjamin A Entwistle, John W. C Open Cardiovasc Med J Article A 36-year-old male involved in a car accident was found to have an embolic stroke due to a left atrial myxoma. Open heart surgery was delayed 4 weeks to decrease the risk of neurologic complications from the anticoagulation required for cardiopulmonary bypass. After resection of the myxoma, intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography found severe mitral regurgitation, which was repaired. Bentham Open 2008-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2627525/ /pubmed/19430521 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192400802010115 Text en © Hirose et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19430521
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192400802010115
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