PMID: 11917688Mar 29, 2002Paper

Myxoma of the right atrium and left ventricle

Medicinski Arhiv
Amra Macić-Dzanković, Djinan Al Tawil

Abstract

In this case report has been shown 63 years old woman who was admitted on internal medicine ward because of chest pain. She said, she has had chest pain for one year, exercise not dependent, connected with shortage of breath and often with coughing mixed with blood. One month before she was discharged from Neurologic Clinic where she had been admitted because of cerebrovascular insult. Echocardiographic analysis shows loose myxoma of right atrium on the thin stalk connected with interatrial septum with very probable myxomatosis in the areas of medial thirdness interventricular septum and inferior wall of left ventriculum, and persistence minor thrombus in acinetic apex of left ventriculum. It was pointed out vera rare location of myxoma and echocardiography as method od choice in its diagnoses.

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