Left atrial myxoma presenting as acute inferior wall infarction-a case report.

Autor: Sankar NM; Department of Cardiac Surgery, International Centre for Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Diseases, Chennai, India. madhusankar@hotmail.com, Vaidyanathan RK, Prasad GN, Cherian KM
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of cardiac surgery [J Card Surg] 2006 Sep-Oct; Vol. 21 (5), pp. 478-9.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2006.00282.x
Abstrakt: Acute myocardial infarction is a rare form of presentation in patients with left atrial myxoma. With wider availability of echocardiography, more and more patients with atrial myxomas will be diagnosed. This report describes a patient with left atrial myxoma who presented features of acute myocardial infarction and had surgical removal of LA myxoma.
Databáze: MEDLINE