Two-dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of left atrial myxoma
| Autor: | L S Perry, L S Wann, J F King, J C Manley, H J Zeft, C M Gross |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Diastole Heart Neoplasms Left atrial Internal medicine medicine Humans cardiovascular diseases Heart Atria Aged E/A ratio business.industry Two dimensional echocardiography Myxoma Middle Aged medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Tumour size Echocardiography Cardiology cardiovascular system Female Left Atrial Myxoma Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Interatrial septum Research Article |
| Popis: | We performed M-mode echocardiograms on 11 patients who later had left atrial myxomas removed at operations. Seven of these 11 patients were also examined with two-dimensional echocardiography. M-mode echocardiography showed the characteristic pattern of a left atrial mass entering the mitral orifice during diastole in nine of the 11 patients. M-mode echocardiographic findings were equivocal in two patients because a short tumour stalk prevented significant motion of the tumour. Cross-sectional echocardiography clearly showed a left atrial mass attached by a stalk to the interatrial septum in all seven patients examined, including one patient in whom the tumour was immobile. Three-dimensional measurements of tumour size made from orthogonal cross-sectional echocardiographic planes were within 6 mm of similar measurements made on the excised tumours. |
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