Systemic Embolism and Septic Shock Complicated Left Atrial Myxoma: Case Report

Myxoma is the most common primary tumor of the heart. The rarity of infected cardiac myxomas leads to numerous diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. We present a case of infected left atrial myxoma caused by methicillin-sensible Staphylococcus aureus in a 48-year-old woman complicated by systemic...

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Autores principales: Trimeche, B., Bouraoui, H., Garbaa, R., Mahdhaoui, A., Ben Rhomdane, M., Ernez-Hajri, S., Jeridi, G.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2829621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20204064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/306375
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author Trimeche, B.
Bouraoui, H.
Garbaa, R.
Mahdhaoui, A.
Ben Rhomdane, M.
Ernez-Hajri, S.
Jeridi, G.
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Bouraoui, H.
Garbaa, R.
Mahdhaoui, A.
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description Myxoma is the most common primary tumor of the heart. The rarity of infected cardiac myxomas leads to numerous diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. We present a case of infected left atrial myxoma caused by methicillin-sensible Staphylococcus aureus in a 48-year-old woman complicated by systemic embolism and septic shock.
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spelling pubmed-28296212010-03-04 Systemic Embolism and Septic Shock Complicated Left Atrial Myxoma: Case Report Trimeche, B. Bouraoui, H. Garbaa, R. Mahdhaoui, A. Ben Rhomdane, M. Ernez-Hajri, S. Jeridi, G. Case Rep Med Case Report Myxoma is the most common primary tumor of the heart. The rarity of infected cardiac myxomas leads to numerous diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. We present a case of infected left atrial myxoma caused by methicillin-sensible Staphylococcus aureus in a 48-year-old woman complicated by systemic embolism and septic shock. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009 2010-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2829621/ /pubmed/20204064 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/306375 Text en Copyright © 2009 B. Trimeche et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Trimeche, B.
Bouraoui, H.
Garbaa, R.
Mahdhaoui, A.
Ben Rhomdane, M.
Ernez-Hajri, S.
Jeridi, G.
Systemic Embolism and Septic Shock Complicated Left Atrial Myxoma: Case Report
title Systemic Embolism and Septic Shock Complicated Left Atrial Myxoma: Case Report
title_full Systemic Embolism and Septic Shock Complicated Left Atrial Myxoma: Case Report
title_fullStr Systemic Embolism and Septic Shock Complicated Left Atrial Myxoma: Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Systemic Embolism and Septic Shock Complicated Left Atrial Myxoma: Case Report
title_short Systemic Embolism and Septic Shock Complicated Left Atrial Myxoma: Case Report
title_sort systemic embolism and septic shock complicated left atrial myxoma: case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2829621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20204064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/306375
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