A Case of Dyspnea in a Patient with a Previous Coronavirus Disease Infection: Pulmonary is not always the Cause.

ABSTRACT: Myxoma is the most common benign primary tumor of the heart. Diagnosis of cardiac myxoma is difficult as it presents itself with varying nonspecific symptoms, and an echocardiography can easily diagnose it. Sometimes, it can cause cardiac syncope and thromboembolic events. A woman with a recent infection by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 was admitted to our hospital with respiratory symptoms: dyspnea and tachypnea; cardiac symptoms: atrial fibrillation; and neurological symptoms: syncope. Initially, she performed brain computed tomography (CT) and CT angiography value. Transthoracic echocardiogram and transesophageal echocardiogram showed an atrial mobile mass. Chest X-ray did not show any interstitial lesions. Therefore, urgent cardiac surgery was performed to remove the

SUBMITTER: Tripodi VF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9164914 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature