Massive Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting With Troponin-Positive Chest Pain

Atrial myxomas are the most prevalent primary cardiac tumors. The clinical presentation is variable and often poses a diagnostic challenge. Here we describe the case of a 52-year-old woman who presented with troponin-positive chest pain, exertional dizziness, and dyspnea as a consequence of a massiv...

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Autores principales: Kearney, Aileen, Corry, Niall, Menown, Ian B. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32720069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40119-020-00187-2
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description Atrial myxomas are the most prevalent primary cardiac tumors. The clinical presentation is variable and often poses a diagnostic challenge. Here we describe the case of a 52-year-old woman who presented with troponin-positive chest pain, exertional dizziness, and dyspnea as a consequence of a massive left atrial myxoma, which was successfully treated with surgical resection. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s40119-020-00187-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-75847062020-10-29 Massive Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting With Troponin-Positive Chest Pain Kearney, Aileen Corry, Niall Menown, Ian B. A. Cardiol Ther Case Report Atrial myxomas are the most prevalent primary cardiac tumors. The clinical presentation is variable and often poses a diagnostic challenge. Here we describe the case of a 52-year-old woman who presented with troponin-positive chest pain, exertional dizziness, and dyspnea as a consequence of a massive left atrial myxoma, which was successfully treated with surgical resection. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s40119-020-00187-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Healthcare 2020-07-27 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7584706/ /pubmed/32720069 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40119-020-00187-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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title_short Massive Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting With Troponin-Positive Chest Pain
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32720069
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