Right atrial myxoma: Echocardiographic, phonocardiographic, and hemodynamic signs

Impairment of Valvular Mechanics Due to Pedunculated Atrial Tumors

“…Many of the commonly observed but poorly cross-correlated physical and laboratory manifestations of atrial myxomas may be explained by our observations [Zitnik and Burchell, 1962;Ramsey el al., 1969;Bower et al, 1969;Z itnik el al., 1969;Waxler et al, 1972). The model experiments clearly demonstrated that small tumors do not impair dia stolic flow or prevent systolic valve closure.…”

Atrial Myxoma: A Review of 9 Cases

“…Echocardiography is of limited value in the diagnosis of right atrial myxomas because of the technical difficulty in obtaining a complete tricuspid valve echogram in most patients, and because the right atrium is not usually displayed. How ever, cases have been recently reported where the diagnosis was made on the basis of echocardiography [27],…”

Tumor invasion of the interventricular septum detected by conventional echocardiography

“…Since the detection of cardiac tumors by ultrasound was first reported by Effert and Domanig ( l ) , there have been many reports of the echographic detection of such lesions as left and right atrial myxomata (2,3 ) and ventricular rhabdomyomata involving the interventricular septum (4,5). A case is presented in which interventricular septal involvement by metastatic neoplasm was detected by conventional echocardiography.…”