Cardiac tumors: Diagnosis and management

Clinical and Histopathological Analysis of 66 Cases with Cardiac Myxoma

“…Thus tumor debris and tumor thrombus emboli can easily fall off to cause embolism, about 50% of patients with embolic performance. Due to hemodynamic factors, the right atrial myxoma mainly caused pulmonary embolism, while the left atrial myxoma can cause systemic embolism, of which the most common is cerebral embolism (Salcedo et al, 1992). 100% patients in this group had the symptoms of flow obstruction including syncope, lower extremity edema, hemoptysis, and etc.…”

“…The annual incidence rate is 0.5/per million, always in adults aged 30 to 60. Women have a higher incidence, of which 4.5% to 10% are due to familial nature (Salcedo et al, 1992;Lamba et al, 2012). CMs always occur in the left atrium, about 75% to 83%, mostly in a single place, 1.3% of which have bi-atrial myxomas (Pinede et al, 2001;Lamba et al, 2012).…”

Myocardial Infarction as an Alert to the Presence of Left Atrial Myxoma

“…About 75%of myxomas originate in the left atrium (1-3). The clinical features of myxomas are determined by their location, size and mobility (4)(5)(6). Most patients present with one or more of the triad of embolism, intracardiac obstruction, and constitutional symptoms.…”

“…Nearly half of benign tumours are myxomas (1)(2)(3). The clinical features of myxomas are determined by their location, size and mobility (4)(5)(6). Most patients with left atrial (LA) myxomas have cardiac symptoms, mainly heart failure and syncope.…”

Surgical treatment of cardiac tumors - an overview and presentation of interesting cases

“…Tumours of the heart, while uncommon, may become symptomatic through obstruction, embolisation (sometimes characterised by distant growth of viable embolic material), and constitutional manifestations (especially in cases of intracavitary tumours, for instance myxomas) [1][2][3][4]. Systemic tumour embolisation may occur as an initial manifestation but care must also be taken that this complication does not occur intraoperatively.…”