Acute Pulmonary Edema Caused by a Giant Atrial Myxoma

Atrial myxoma is the most common primary cardiac tumor. Its clinical presentation spreads from asymptomatic incidental mass to serious life-threatening cardiovascular complications. We report the case of a 44-year-old man with evening fever and worsening dyspnea in the last weeks, admitted to our ho...

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Autores principales: Fisicaro, Andrea, Slavich, Massimo, Agricola, Eustachio, Marini, Claudia, Margonato, Alberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3670566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23762077
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/904952
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author Fisicaro, Andrea
Slavich, Massimo
Agricola, Eustachio
Marini, Claudia
Margonato, Alberto
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Agricola, Eustachio
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Margonato, Alberto
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description Atrial myxoma is the most common primary cardiac tumor. Its clinical presentation spreads from asymptomatic incidental mass to serious life-threatening cardiovascular complications. We report the case of a 44-year-old man with evening fever and worsening dyspnea in the last weeks, admitted to our hospital for acute pulmonary edema. The cardiac auscultation was very suspicious for mitral valve stenosis, but the echocardiography revealed a huge atrial mass with a diastolic prolapse into mitral valve orifice causing an extremely high transmitral gradient pressure. Awareness of this uncommon acute presentation of atrial myxoma is necessary for timely diagnosis and prompt surgical intervention.
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spelling pubmed-36705662013-06-12 Acute Pulmonary Edema Caused by a Giant Atrial Myxoma Fisicaro, Andrea Slavich, Massimo Agricola, Eustachio Marini, Claudia Margonato, Alberto Case Rep Med Case Report Atrial myxoma is the most common primary cardiac tumor. Its clinical presentation spreads from asymptomatic incidental mass to serious life-threatening cardiovascular complications. We report the case of a 44-year-old man with evening fever and worsening dyspnea in the last weeks, admitted to our hospital for acute pulmonary edema. The cardiac auscultation was very suspicious for mitral valve stenosis, but the echocardiography revealed a huge atrial mass with a diastolic prolapse into mitral valve orifice causing an extremely high transmitral gradient pressure. Awareness of this uncommon acute presentation of atrial myxoma is necessary for timely diagnosis and prompt surgical intervention. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3670566/ /pubmed/23762077 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/904952 Text en Copyright © 2013 Andrea Fisicaro 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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