Impact of heart myxoma localization upon its clinical course and outcome

Abstract

Patients with heart myxoma usually pass through asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic phase, but when troubles become manifested, they do not much differ from those due to other causes. For this reason this tumor can be diagnosed just when complications caused by its localization and growth develop. Modern cardiologic diagnostics, primarily preventive non-invasive echocardiography, enables timely diagnosis and removal of the tumor because only then it may take a name benign tumor.

Massive right atrial myxoma with dyspnea at rest in an elderly patient: A case report

“…Pericardial and pleural effusion as a systemic manifestation was previously seen in only one 46-year-old woman with left atrial myxoma. These effusions disappeared soon after the surgical removal of the tumor 11 . The most common differential diagnostic problem after discovering a mass formation in the heart cavities is to differentiate myxoma from the thrombus.…”