Atypical atrial myxomas in two asymptomatic patients: a case report

BACKGROUND: Atypical cardiac myxomas are a rare occurrence and may present with a variety of clinical manifestations depending on the morphology and location. CASE PRESENTATION: Two cases of cardiac myxomas atypically located in asymptomatic patients, diagnosed by transthoracic and transoesophageal...

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Autores principales: Charokopos, Nicholas A, Rouska, Efthymia, Pliakos, Christodoulos, Pagourelias, Efstathios D, Artemiou, Panagiotis, Foroulis, Christoforos, Papadopoulos, Nikolaos
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2745371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19737417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-7-45
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author Charokopos, Nicholas A
Rouska, Efthymia
Pliakos, Christodoulos
Pagourelias, Efstathios D
Artemiou, Panagiotis
Foroulis, Christoforos
Papadopoulos, Nikolaos
author_facet Charokopos, Nicholas A
Rouska, Efthymia
Pliakos, Christodoulos
Pagourelias, Efstathios D
Artemiou, Panagiotis
Foroulis, Christoforos
Papadopoulos, Nikolaos
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description BACKGROUND: Atypical cardiac myxomas are a rare occurrence and may present with a variety of clinical manifestations depending on the morphology and location. CASE PRESENTATION: Two cases of cardiac myxomas atypically located in asymptomatic patients, diagnosed by transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography, are presented. In the first case a myxoma is located under the anterior mitral valve leaflet and in the second case a myxoma is located in the right atrium. CONCLUSION: We emphasize the leading role of transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of intracavitary cardiac tumours.
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spelling pubmed-27453712009-09-17 Atypical atrial myxomas in two asymptomatic patients: a case report Charokopos, Nicholas A Rouska, Efthymia Pliakos, Christodoulos Pagourelias, Efstathios D Artemiou, Panagiotis Foroulis, Christoforos Papadopoulos, Nikolaos Cardiovasc Ultrasound Case Report BACKGROUND: Atypical cardiac myxomas are a rare occurrence and may present with a variety of clinical manifestations depending on the morphology and location. CASE PRESENTATION: Two cases of cardiac myxomas atypically located in asymptomatic patients, diagnosed by transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography, are presented. In the first case a myxoma is located under the anterior mitral valve leaflet and in the second case a myxoma is located in the right atrium. CONCLUSION: We emphasize the leading role of transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of intracavitary cardiac tumours. BioMed Central 2009-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2745371/ /pubmed/19737417 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-7-45 Text en Copyright © 2009 Charokopos et al; 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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Charokopos, Nicholas A
Rouska, Efthymia
Pliakos, Christodoulos
Pagourelias, Efstathios D
Artemiou, Panagiotis
Foroulis, Christoforos
Papadopoulos, Nikolaos
Atypical atrial myxomas in two asymptomatic patients: a case report
title Atypical atrial myxomas in two asymptomatic patients: a case report
title_full Atypical atrial myxomas in two asymptomatic patients: a case report
title_fullStr Atypical atrial myxomas in two asymptomatic patients: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Atypical atrial myxomas in two asymptomatic patients: a case report
title_short Atypical atrial myxomas in two asymptomatic patients: a case report
title_sort atypical atrial myxomas in two asymptomatic patients: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2745371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19737417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-7-45
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