Acute heart failure due to a giant left atrial myxoma: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiac myxomas are the most common primary benign tumour of the heart. Most of them occur between the 4th and 6th decade of life, are most frequent in the woman, and most frequently localized in the left atrium.

Case summary

We present a case of a 41-year-old female who presented with a history of left-sided heart failure. A left atrial mass of 87 × 88 × 65 mm was documented by cardiac magnetic resonance. She was taken to surgical resection of the mass. Histopathologic findings were diagnostic of cardiac myxoma. Generally, myxomas that are bigger than 6 cm are associated with the worst prognosis.

Discussion

Primary cardiac tumours are mostly benign, being in 50% of the cases a cardiac myxoma. The rest of them correspond to papillary fibroelastoma (26%), fi

SUBMITTER: Alan FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9425850 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature