Multicentric familial cardiac myxoma

Akbarzadeh, Zahra; Esmailzadeh, Maryam; Yousefi, Atefe; Safaei, Akbar; Raisi, K.; Sharifi, Farnaz

doi:10.1016/j.euje.2004.07.010

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“…Syndrome myxoma or Carney’s syndrome also consists of extracardiac myxomas in the breast or skin, spotty pigmentation, and endocrine overactivity. Patients with Carney’s syndrome are often younger (20 years old) and the cardiac myxomas are usually multiple and recurrent, involving more than 1 cardiac chamber and unusual locations ( 20 , 21 ). Familial cardiac myxomas appear to have an autosomal dominant transmission.…”

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Unusual aspects of cardiac myxoma

Yuan

Yan

Ning³

2017

Anatol J Cardiol

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A cardiac myxoma may manifest as miscellaneous and uncharacteristic presentations. These unusual aspects of cardiac myxomas can be rare clinical presentations, special patient populations, unusual locations, and special pathology, which may lead to a delayed diagnosis, improper checkups, and subsequent untimely treatment, eventually resulting in unexpected poor prognosis. Therefore, the diagnosis of cardiac myxomas can be challenging because of these unusual aspects. In order to get a better understanding of a cardiac myxoma and to facilitate an early diagnosis and proper treatment, the unusual aspects of cardiac myxomas are described here.

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Unusual aspects of cardiac myxoma

Yuan

Yan

Ning³

2017

Anatol J Cardiol

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“…Myxoma may present with many clinical syndromes such as neurological events and PTE. It was reported that about 20-30% of patients with atrial myxoma had neurological complications [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18].…”

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“…The CNS events include progressive headache, nausea or vomiting due to the increase of intracranial pressure, limbs or body weakness or numbness and new onset of seizure [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

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“…Syndrome myxoma or Carney's syndrome also consists of extra cardiac myxomas in the skin or brest, spotty pigmentation, and endocrine over activity. Patients with Carney's syndrome are often younger (20 years old) and the cardiac myxomas are usually recurrent and multiple, involving more than 1 cardiac chamber and unusual locations [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

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Atypical Symptom and Clinical Features of Right Atrial Myxoma: A Case Report

Khansari¹,

Abdolhosseini²,

Karimian³

et al. 2022

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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 symptoms. The modality of choice for diagnosis of cardiac myxoma is an Echocardiography. Surgery should be considered promptly, because embolic complications or sudden death can be occured. This surgery is usually safe with low morbidity and mortality. Operative mortality is reported to be within 5%, and will be increased with myxoma occurring in the ventricle. Our case was a 47-year-old Iranian male with right atrial myxoma and a history of heart burn, he does not mention fever and chill, cough, chest pain or dyspnea. In CT Angiography of pulmonary artery showing pulmonary thromboembolism. After echocardiography and pulmonary CT angiography he underwent cardiac surgery and mass with adhesion to the right atrial wall near the IVC was excised. The patient was discharged after surgery with good general condition and stable vital signs.

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“…[ 2 ] Familial multicentric cardiac myxomas may present as a case of left atrial (LA) and left ventricular (LV) mass simultaneously. [ 3 ]…”

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Sporadic multicentric right atrial and right ventricular myxoma presenting as acute pulmonary thromboembolism

Singh

Tripathy

Mohanty³

et al. 2016

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Multicentric cardiac myxoma is a rare syndrome; usually it is familial. We report a rare case of sporadic right atrium (RA) and right ventricle (RV) myxoma in a 26-year-old female presenting to our hospital for the evaluation of sudden onset of dyspnea and left precordial pain attributed to the embolization of degenerating tumor fragments to the pulmonary artery (PA). The exact incidence of sporadic multicentric RA and RV myxoma presenting as acute pulmonary embolism is unknown as multicentric RA and RV myxoma are very rare. Myxomas presenting as pulmonary embolism is <10%. Majority of cardiac myxomas present as exertional dyspnea, chest pain, positional syncope, fever, weight loss and other constitutional symptoms. Any young patient presenting with acute onset dyspnea with multiple cardiac masses may have tumor embolization to the PA diagnosis with transthoracic echocardiography and high-resolution computed tomography of thorax, fast-tracks patient transfer for urgent cardiac surgery to prevent further embolization.

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Multicentric familial cardiac myxoma

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Unusual aspects of cardiac myxoma

Unusual aspects of cardiac myxoma

Atypical Symptom and Clinical Features of Right Atrial Myxoma: A Case Report

Sporadic multicentric right atrial and right ventricular myxoma presenting as acute pulmonary thromboembolism

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