A Giant Left Atrial Myxoma

Atrial myxomas are the most common primary cardiac tumors. Patients with left atrial myxomas generally present with mechanical obstruction of blood flow, systemic embolization, and constitutional symptoms. We present a case of an unusually large left atrial myxoma discovered incidentally in a patien...

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Autores principales: Zaher, Medhat F., Bajaj, Sharad, Habib, Mirette, Doss, Emile, Habib, Michael, Bikkina, Mahesh, Shamoon, Fayez, Hoyek, Wissam N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4283415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25587285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/819052
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author Zaher, Medhat F.
Bajaj, Sharad
Habib, Mirette
Doss, Emile
Habib, Michael
Bikkina, Mahesh
Shamoon, Fayez
Hoyek, Wissam N.
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Bajaj, Sharad
Habib, Mirette
Doss, Emile
Habib, Michael
Bikkina, Mahesh
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description Atrial myxomas are the most common primary cardiac tumors. Patients with left atrial myxomas generally present with mechanical obstruction of blood flow, systemic embolization, and constitutional symptoms. We present a case of an unusually large left atrial myxoma discovered incidentally in a patient with longstanding dyspnea being managed as bronchial asthma.
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spelling pubmed-42834152015-01-13 A Giant Left Atrial Myxoma Zaher, Medhat F. Bajaj, Sharad Habib, Mirette Doss, Emile Habib, Michael Bikkina, Mahesh Shamoon, Fayez Hoyek, Wissam N. Case Rep Med Case Report Atrial myxomas are the most common primary cardiac tumors. Patients with left atrial myxomas generally present with mechanical obstruction of blood flow, systemic embolization, and constitutional symptoms. We present a case of an unusually large left atrial myxoma discovered incidentally in a patient with longstanding dyspnea being managed as bronchial asthma. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4283415/ /pubmed/25587285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/819052 Text en Copyright © 2014 Medhat F. Zaher 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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A Giant Left Atrial Myxoma
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