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Cardiac myxoma presenting with multisystem involvement
A cardiac myxoma is a rare tumor that could be incidental or present with common symptoms due to embolization. A minority of cases are attributed to carney complex, a rare inherited disease. A 73-year-old Asian male presented with acute left-side weakness, slurred speech, gait imbalance, and subacut...
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Saudi Medical Journal
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9987664/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36104063 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.9.20220346 |
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author | Ageely, Ghofran A. Alsulami, Salhah S. Alkenani, Ahad A. Albeshri, Ebtihal EMS. |
author_facet | Ageely, Ghofran A. Alsulami, Salhah S. Alkenani, Ahad A. Albeshri, Ebtihal EMS. |
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description | A cardiac myxoma is a rare tumor that could be incidental or present with common symptoms due to embolization. A minority of cases are attributed to carney complex, a rare inherited disease. A 73-year-old Asian male presented with acute left-side weakness, slurred speech, gait imbalance, and subacute constitutional symptoms. Left atrial myxoma was discovered by computed tomography and confirmed by echocardiography. Brain imaging revealed pituitary macroadenoma with subarachnoid and intraventricular hemorrages. The hormonal profile confirmed pituitary apoplexy, for which hormone replacement was initiated. Workup also revealed multiple endocrine tumors and excluded infection and malignancy. Myxoma resection could not be carried out, due to the patient’s rapid clinical deterioration and death. Furthermore, the presence of cardiac myxoma, non-functioning pituitary macroadenomas, and pituitary apoplexy is extremely rare and rarely documented in the literature. Therefore, we emphasize clinical awareness of rare conditions with atypical presentations to improve outcomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-99876642023-03-07 Cardiac myxoma presenting with multisystem involvement Ageely, Ghofran A. Alsulami, Salhah S. Alkenani, Ahad A. Albeshri, Ebtihal EMS. Saudi Med J Case Report A cardiac myxoma is a rare tumor that could be incidental or present with common symptoms due to embolization. A minority of cases are attributed to carney complex, a rare inherited disease. A 73-year-old Asian male presented with acute left-side weakness, slurred speech, gait imbalance, and subacute constitutional symptoms. Left atrial myxoma was discovered by computed tomography and confirmed by echocardiography. Brain imaging revealed pituitary macroadenoma with subarachnoid and intraventricular hemorrages. The hormonal profile confirmed pituitary apoplexy, for which hormone replacement was initiated. Workup also revealed multiple endocrine tumors and excluded infection and malignancy. Myxoma resection could not be carried out, due to the patient’s rapid clinical deterioration and death. Furthermore, the presence of cardiac myxoma, non-functioning pituitary macroadenomas, and pituitary apoplexy is extremely rare and rarely documented in the literature. Therefore, we emphasize clinical awareness of rare conditions with atypical presentations to improve outcomes. Saudi Medical Journal 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9987664/ /pubmed/36104063 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.9.20220346 Text en Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Ageely, Ghofran A. Alsulami, Salhah S. Alkenani, Ahad A. Albeshri, Ebtihal EMS. Cardiac myxoma presenting with multisystem involvement |
title | Cardiac myxoma presenting with multisystem involvement |
title_full | Cardiac myxoma presenting with multisystem involvement |
title_fullStr | Cardiac myxoma presenting with multisystem involvement |
title_full_unstemmed | Cardiac myxoma presenting with multisystem involvement |
title_short | Cardiac myxoma presenting with multisystem involvement |
title_sort | cardiac myxoma presenting with multisystem involvement |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9987664/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36104063 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.9.20220346 |
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