Abstract:Cardiac tumors are rare in medicine. Myxomas are the most common benign cardiac tumors. Most myxomas (>80%) are found in the left atrium. The site of 15-20% of cases of myxoma is the right atrium. The incidence of cardiac myxoma peaks at 40 to 60 years of age. Most atrial myxomas occur sporadically and are more common in middle-aged women. Patients with atrial myxoma usually have one of the symptoms in the following tetrad: embolic phenomena, intracardiac flow obstruction, arrhythmias and constitutional sympto… Show more
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