An Unusually Heavy Heart

A 47-year-old female presented with worsening insidious symptoms of breathlessness and leg swelling over the last 12 months. Whilst her ECG and chest X-ray were relatively unremarkable on admission, an echocardiogram demonstrated a large-sized left atrial myxoma. This tumour was resected by the card...

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Autores principales: Doolub, Gemina, Doolub, Khoolseeduth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2015
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Published online: January, 2015
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4342863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25762926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000371756
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description A 47-year-old female presented with worsening insidious symptoms of breathlessness and leg swelling over the last 12 months. Whilst her ECG and chest X-ray were relatively unremarkable on admission, an echocardiogram demonstrated a large-sized left atrial myxoma. This tumour was resected by the cardiac surgeons the next day, with very good postoperative results. The ensuing discussion details the anatomy and physiology of myxomas, their epidemiology, clinical features, diagnostic investigations and management.
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spelling pubmed-43428632015-03-11 An Unusually Heavy Heart Doolub, Gemina Doolub, Khoolseeduth Case Rep Oncol Published online: January, 2015 A 47-year-old female presented with worsening insidious symptoms of breathlessness and leg swelling over the last 12 months. Whilst her ECG and chest X-ray were relatively unremarkable on admission, an echocardiogram demonstrated a large-sized left atrial myxoma. This tumour was resected by the cardiac surgeons the next day, with very good postoperative results. The ensuing discussion details the anatomy and physiology of myxomas, their epidemiology, clinical features, diagnostic investigations and management. S. Karger AG 2015-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4342863/ /pubmed/25762926 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000371756 Text en Copyright © 2015 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
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