An unusual cause of multiple embolic strokes: cardiac myxoma, about a case

Cardiac myxomas are the most common primary intracardiac tumors, accounting for 50% of all cardiac neoplasms, with an estimated frequency of 0.5/million/inhabitants/year. Presenting symptoms are related to cerebral or peripheral embolism, and/or intracardiac obstruction. Thus, urgent management of m...

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Autores principales: Wazaren, Hicham, Bouhdadi, Hanae, El Boussaadani, Badre, Derqaoui, Sabrine, Hosni, Abdelmoughit, Idrissa, Malick, Benlafqih, Chakib, Rhissassi, Jaafar, Sayah, Rochde, Laaroussi, Mohammed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7984845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab063
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Sumario:Cardiac myxomas are the most common primary intracardiac tumors, accounting for 50% of all cardiac neoplasms, with an estimated frequency of 0.5/million/inhabitants/year. Presenting symptoms are related to cerebral or peripheral embolism, and/or intracardiac obstruction. Thus, urgent management of myxoma is mandatory due to embolism’s risk. Herein, we report the case of an 82-year-old woman with a myxoma of the left atrium, revealed by a multiple ischemic strokes, to raise awareness of this entity.

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