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Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Persistent Dizziness

Cardiac masses are divided into benign tumors and malignant tumors. The tumor can cause valvular obstruction and embolization phenomenon. To elucidate the etiology of cardiac masses, we rely on the use of echocardiograms in combination with the clinical picture of the patient. We describe an interes...

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Autores principales: Azeez, Hayder, Abdulrahman, Zeinab A, Nguyen, Tien, Tofano, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9310553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35911261
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26321
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author Azeez, Hayder
Abdulrahman, Zeinab A
Nguyen, Tien
Tofano, Michael
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Nguyen, Tien
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description Cardiac masses are divided into benign tumors and malignant tumors. The tumor can cause valvular obstruction and embolization phenomenon. To elucidate the etiology of cardiac masses, we rely on the use of echocardiograms in combination with the clinical picture of the patient. We describe an interesting case report of a 71-year-old woman who presented with persistent dizziness for one day. MRI brain showed multiple, small, scattered foci of acute infarction. The patient was treated with aspirin and atorvastatin. Transthoracic echocardiography showed a mass in the left atrium. Afterward, the tumor was removed surgically and histopathology was consistent with atrial myxoma.
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spelling pubmed-93105532022-07-29 Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Persistent Dizziness Azeez, Hayder Abdulrahman, Zeinab A Nguyen, Tien Tofano, Michael Cureus Cardiology Cardiac masses are divided into benign tumors and malignant tumors. The tumor can cause valvular obstruction and embolization phenomenon. To elucidate the etiology of cardiac masses, we rely on the use of echocardiograms in combination with the clinical picture of the patient. We describe an interesting case report of a 71-year-old woman who presented with persistent dizziness for one day. MRI brain showed multiple, small, scattered foci of acute infarction. The patient was treated with aspirin and atorvastatin. Transthoracic echocardiography showed a mass in the left atrium. Afterward, the tumor was removed surgically and histopathology was consistent with atrial myxoma. Cureus 2022-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9310553/ /pubmed/35911261 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26321 Text en Copyright © 2022, Azeez et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Azeez, Hayder
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Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Persistent Dizziness
title Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Persistent Dizziness
title_full Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Persistent Dizziness
title_fullStr Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Persistent Dizziness
title_full_unstemmed Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Persistent Dizziness
title_short Left Atrial Myxoma Presenting as Persistent Dizziness
title_sort left atrial myxoma presenting as persistent dizziness
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9310553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35911261
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26321
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