AI Article Synopsis
- A woman fell into a coma after having a treatment called electroconvulsive therapy, which is sometimes used for severe mental health issues.
- Doctors found tiny blood clots in her brain and discovered she had a growth in her heart called a myxoma, which they removed.
- The article talks about the problems caused by myxomas, the treatment for them, and how electroconvulsive therapy might be linked to the blood clots.
Article Abstract
We describe a comatose female patient after electroconvulsive therapy. Head imaging showed diffuse cerebral emboli. Transesophageal echocardiography showed left atrial myxoma which was resected soon thereafter. The article describes the presentation, complications and treatment of myxomas and discusses electroconvulsive therapy, its adverse events and the possible relation to myxoma embolization.
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