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“YoYo” Ball in Heart: Uncommon Cause of Dyspnea in an Elderly Female

Atrial myxomas are the most common primary tumors of the heart. Their presentation will vary depending on their anatomical site and many times remain asymptomatic. Local obstruction to atrial outflow can present with dyspnea, orthopnea, syncope, and rarely sudden death. A differential diagnosis of t...

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Autores principales: Pradhan, Akshyaya, Gupta, Vikas, Vishwakarma, Pravesh, Sethi, Rishi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7758788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33376706
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_225_19
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author Pradhan, Akshyaya
Gupta, Vikas
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description Atrial myxomas are the most common primary tumors of the heart. Their presentation will vary depending on their anatomical site and many times remain asymptomatic. Local obstruction to atrial outflow can present with dyspnea, orthopnea, syncope, and rarely sudden death. A differential diagnosis of tumor in the left atrium includes thrombus. Echocardiography usually suffices in making a diagnosis, but in difficult cases, cardiac computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging may be needed. We report a case of left atrial myxoma in an elderly female which was asymptomatic and presented with rapid deterioration of symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-77587882020-12-28 “YoYo” Ball in Heart: Uncommon Cause of Dyspnea in an Elderly Female Pradhan, Akshyaya Gupta, Vikas Vishwakarma, Pravesh Sethi, Rishi Int J Appl Basic Med Res Case Report Atrial myxomas are the most common primary tumors of the heart. Their presentation will vary depending on their anatomical site and many times remain asymptomatic. Local obstruction to atrial outflow can present with dyspnea, orthopnea, syncope, and rarely sudden death. A differential diagnosis of tumor in the left atrium includes thrombus. Echocardiography usually suffices in making a diagnosis, but in difficult cases, cardiac computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging may be needed. We report a case of left atrial myxoma in an elderly female which was asymptomatic and presented with rapid deterioration of symptoms. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7758788/ /pubmed/33376706 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_225_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Pradhan, Akshyaya
Gupta, Vikas
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“YoYo” Ball in Heart: Uncommon Cause of Dyspnea in an Elderly Female
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title_short “YoYo” Ball in Heart: Uncommon Cause of Dyspnea in an Elderly Female
title_sort “yoyo” ball in heart: uncommon cause of dyspnea in an elderly female
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7758788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33376706
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_225_19
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