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Eur Heart J Case Rep
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.
JACC Case Rep
December 2023
Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute & Research Foundation, Overland Park, Kansas, USA.
Isolated atrial myocarditis, a rare clinical entity, is presented in this case report as the diagnosis in a patient with new-onset atrial fibrillation. Our findings emphasize the potential for atrial arrhythmias and their unusual presentation; the role of multimodal imaging, especially F-FDG-PET/CT, in diagnosis; and considerations for long-term treatment strategies.
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March 2022
Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
After surgical excision of myxoma recurrence usually happens adjacent to the initial origin site. We report a case of recurrent myxomas in a young male patient that had biatrial recurrence with one tumor originating very unusually from the base of the anterior mitral leaflet. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography was instrumental in localizing the site of the origin of left atrial myxoma from the base of the anterior mitral leaflet and in detecting an additional myxoma attached to the wall of the right atrium.
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June 2021
Department of Internal medicine, Tripler Army Medical Center, 1 Jarrett White Rd, Medical Center, HI 96859-5001, USA.
We submit an unusual presentation of spontaneous atrial fibrillation in a young fit active-duty U.S. military African-American male without evidence of structural heart disease.
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March 2020
Cardiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, USA.
Restrictive cardiomyopathy (CM) usually develops and progresses slowly, over a course of years. The rapid development of idiopathic restrictive CM immediately following a liver transplant is unusual. We describe the case of a patient who developed idiopathic restrictive CM fairly rapidly following a liver transplant.
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