Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Lateral Medullary (Wallenberg's) Syndrome

Myxomas are benign, primary tumors of the heart. Atrial myxomas can present with a variety of clinical features including dyspnea, orthopnea, pulmonary edema, and pulmonary or systemic emboli. Constitutional symptoms such as fever and weight loss may also be present. We report the case of a young fe...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Simran, Ayala, Ricky, Desai, Aakash, Modi, Viraj I., Nardino, Robert J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6881562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31827936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5610213
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author Gupta, Simran
Ayala, Ricky
Desai, Aakash
Modi, Viraj I.
Nardino, Robert J.
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description Myxomas are benign, primary tumors of the heart. Atrial myxomas can present with a variety of clinical features including dyspnea, orthopnea, pulmonary edema, and pulmonary or systemic emboli. Constitutional symptoms such as fever and weight loss may also be present. We report the case of a young female presenting with headache, facial numbness, and vertigo, who was found to have a posterolateral medullary stroke secondary to a large left atrial cardiac myxoma.
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spelling pubmed-68815622019-12-11 Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Lateral Medullary (Wallenberg's) Syndrome Gupta, Simran Ayala, Ricky Desai, Aakash Modi, Viraj I. Nardino, Robert J. Case Rep Cardiol Case Report Myxomas are benign, primary tumors of the heart. Atrial myxomas can present with a variety of clinical features including dyspnea, orthopnea, pulmonary edema, and pulmonary or systemic emboli. Constitutional symptoms such as fever and weight loss may also be present. We report the case of a young female presenting with headache, facial numbness, and vertigo, who was found to have a posterolateral medullary stroke secondary to a large left atrial cardiac myxoma. Hindawi 2019-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6881562/ /pubmed/31827936 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5610213 Text en Copyright © 2019 Simran Gupta et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Lateral Medullary (Wallenberg's) Syndrome
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title_fullStr Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Lateral Medullary (Wallenberg's) Syndrome
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title_short Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Lateral Medullary (Wallenberg's) Syndrome
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topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6881562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31827936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5610213
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