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Case Reports
. 2012:5:111-4.
doi: 10.4137/CCRep.S9729. Epub 2012 Jul 12.

Left atrial myxoma mimicking mitral stenosis

Dike B Ojji  1 , Manmak H Mamven, Odiase Omonua, Zaiyad Habib, Hamamatu Osaze, Karen Sliwa
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Case Reports

Left atrial myxoma mimicking mitral stenosis

Dike B Ojji et al. Clin Med Insights Case Rep. 2012.

Abstract

Cardiac myxoma is a benign (non-malignant) neoplasm that represents the most common primary tumour of the heart. We present the case of a 36 year old woman with background hypertension who presented with features of left ventricular failure and seizures, and was found during transthoracic echocardiography to have left atrial myxoma protruding through the mitral valve orifice. She subsequently had excision of the atrial myxoma. The usefulness of early transthoracic echocardiography in any patient presenting with features of heart failure even when the aetiology seems obvious cannot be over-emphasised.

Keywords: atrial; mitral; myxoma.

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Figure 1
Apical for-chamber view showing the left atrial myxoma.
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Figure 2
Parasternal long-axis view showing the left atrial myxoma.
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