Cerebral embolism complicating left atrial myxoma: a case report

Cardiac myxoma are the most common benign primary cardiac tumors that can lead to many complications as described in literature. Here we report the case of a boy aged 11 that was referred for etiological diagnosis of ischemic stroke. Transthoracic echocardiography reveals a myxoma in the left atrium...

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Autores principales: Ihsen, Zairi, Hela, Mssaad, Khadija, Mzoughi, Zouhayer, Jnifene
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5012782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27642478
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.24.140.9778
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author Ihsen, Zairi
Hela, Mssaad
Khadija, Mzoughi
Zouhayer, Jnifene
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description Cardiac myxoma are the most common benign primary cardiac tumors that can lead to many complications as described in literature. Here we report the case of a boy aged 11 that was referred for etiological diagnosis of ischemic stroke. Transthoracic echocardiography reveals a myxoma in the left atrium. Patient was referred to surgery. The diagnosis was confirmed and the mass was completely resected.
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spelling pubmed-50127822016-09-16 Cerebral embolism complicating left atrial myxoma: a case report Ihsen, Zairi Hela, Mssaad Khadija, Mzoughi Zouhayer, Jnifene Pan Afr Med J Case Report Cardiac myxoma are the most common benign primary cardiac tumors that can lead to many complications as described in literature. Here we report the case of a boy aged 11 that was referred for etiological diagnosis of ischemic stroke. Transthoracic echocardiography reveals a myxoma in the left atrium. Patient was referred to surgery. The diagnosis was confirmed and the mass was completely resected. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5012782/ /pubmed/27642478 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.24.140.9778 Text en © Zairi Ihsen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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Cerebral embolism complicating left atrial myxoma: a case report
title Cerebral embolism complicating left atrial myxoma: a case report
title_full Cerebral embolism complicating left atrial myxoma: a case report
title_fullStr Cerebral embolism complicating left atrial myxoma: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Cerebral embolism complicating left atrial myxoma: a case report
title_short Cerebral embolism complicating left atrial myxoma: a case report
title_sort cerebral embolism complicating left atrial myxoma: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5012782/
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