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Incidentally Detected Asymptomatic Cardiac Myxoma in a Patient With COVID-19
Primary cardiac tumors, such as myxomas, are rare. About 75% of myxomas occur in the left atrium of the heart. Myxomas can have a broad clinical spectrum. The clinical presentation varies from asymptomatic to sudden cardiac death. Sometimes, a diagnosis is difficult. Cardiac myxoma can cause hemodyn...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8915208/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35283655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11795476221083115 |
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author | Shakerian, Behnam Jebelli, Mohammad Mandegar, Mohammad Hossein |
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description | Primary cardiac tumors, such as myxomas, are rare. About 75% of myxomas occur in the left atrium of the heart. Myxomas can have a broad clinical spectrum. The clinical presentation varies from asymptomatic to sudden cardiac death. Sometimes, a diagnosis is difficult. Cardiac myxoma can cause hemodynamic disturbances in the setting of pneumonia and hypercoagulable state in patients with Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) and make treatment decisions difficult. We present a case of unusually huge left atrial mass discovered incidentally in a patient with COVID-19. Upon workup, an echocardiogram revealed an incidental 7 × 5 cm left atrial myxoma. Preoperatively, the patient was monitored closely in the ICU. After stabilization in the ICU, the patient was taken to surgery and the tumor was successfully removed. Pathohistological results after surgical removal of the tumor confirmed the diagnosis of cardiac myxoma. We consider our case extremely rare due to the asymptomatic course despite the large size of the tumor. |
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spelling | pubmed-89152082022-03-12 Incidentally Detected Asymptomatic Cardiac Myxoma in a Patient With COVID-19 Shakerian, Behnam Jebelli, Mohammad Mandegar, Mohammad Hossein Clin Med Insights Case Rep Case Report Primary cardiac tumors, such as myxomas, are rare. About 75% of myxomas occur in the left atrium of the heart. Myxomas can have a broad clinical spectrum. The clinical presentation varies from asymptomatic to sudden cardiac death. Sometimes, a diagnosis is difficult. Cardiac myxoma can cause hemodynamic disturbances in the setting of pneumonia and hypercoagulable state in patients with Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) and make treatment decisions difficult. We present a case of unusually huge left atrial mass discovered incidentally in a patient with COVID-19. Upon workup, an echocardiogram revealed an incidental 7 × 5 cm left atrial myxoma. Preoperatively, the patient was monitored closely in the ICU. After stabilization in the ICU, the patient was taken to surgery and the tumor was successfully removed. Pathohistological results after surgical removal of the tumor confirmed the diagnosis of cardiac myxoma. We consider our case extremely rare due to the asymptomatic course despite the large size of the tumor. SAGE Publications 2022-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8915208/ /pubmed/35283655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11795476221083115 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Shakerian, Behnam Jebelli, Mohammad Mandegar, Mohammad Hossein Incidentally Detected Asymptomatic Cardiac Myxoma in a Patient With COVID-19 |
title | Incidentally Detected Asymptomatic Cardiac Myxoma in a Patient With COVID-19 |
title_full | Incidentally Detected Asymptomatic Cardiac Myxoma in a Patient With COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Incidentally Detected Asymptomatic Cardiac Myxoma in a Patient With COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Incidentally Detected Asymptomatic Cardiac Myxoma in a Patient With COVID-19 |
title_short | Incidentally Detected Asymptomatic Cardiac Myxoma in a Patient With COVID-19 |
title_sort | incidentally detected asymptomatic cardiac myxoma in a patient with covid-19 |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8915208/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35283655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11795476221083115 |
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