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Kardiol Pol
September 2024
Department of Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Diseases, IRCCS Ca 'Granda Foundation Maggiore Policlinico Hospital, Italy.
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging
September 2024
Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
A healthy 28-year-old woman, presenting with a chronic cough for approximately 6 months, was referred for echocardiography. The images revealed the presence of two masses in each atrium without an inter-atrial septal defect. No additional abnormalities were detected during the clinical examinations.
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May 2024
Department of Cardiac Surgery, LMU Hospital, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377 Munich, Germany.
Background: Myxomas are uncommon and benign cardiac neoplasms that can present with various cardiac, systemic, embolic, or without symptoms depending on their location and size. Very few cases of large, truly biatrial, or tumours connected via the cardiac atria have been reported throughout the years.
Case Summary: We present an unusual case of an apparently healthy 25-year-old French woman, who presented with dyspnoea at Munich's Octoberfest.
Prz Menopauzalny
September 2023
First Cardiac Surgery Department, Henry Dunant Hospital Center, Athens, Greece.
Malignant primary cardiac tumors are rare, with atrial myxoma and rhabdomyosarcoma the common types in adult and pediatric populations respectively. Rhabdomyosarcomas are rare and are usually located in the atria; they present with symptomatology dependent on their location. A 63-year-old woman presented with the symptomatology of dyspnea, cough, and palpitations and was diagnosed with biatrial primary cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma, which required excision.
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July 2023
Department of Cardiology, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California.
• Biatrial cardiac myxoma is an extremely rare pathology. • Cardiac masses present as valve obstruction, embolism, and constitutional symptoms. • TTE is important in patients with exertional dyspnea to rule out cardiac causes.
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