A case of left atrial myxoma with unusual tumor vascularity. (May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shabestari, Mahmoud Mohammadzadeh; Fazlinezhad, Afsoon; Moravvej, Zahra; Tashnizi, Mohammad Abbasi; Azari, Ali; Bigdelu, Leila
• Is Part Of: Asian cardiovascular & thoracic annals. Volume 23:Number 4(2015)
• Page Start: 458
• Page End: 460
• Publication Date: 2015-05
• Subjects: Coronary angiography -- coronary disease -- heart atria -- heart neoplasms -- myxoma; Heart -- Diseases -- Asia -- Periodicals; Heart -- Diseases -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Heart -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Heart -- Surgery -- Asia -- Periodicals; Heart -- Surgery -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Heart -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Chest -- Surgery -- Asia -- Periodicals; Chest -- Surgery -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Chest -- Surgery -- Periodicals; 617.412
• DOI: 10.1177/0218492313513776
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0218-4923

Abstract

A 69-year-old woman presented with a 2-week history of chest pain and mitral and aortic valve replacement 15 and 5 years earlier. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a well-seated monoleaflet mitral valve and a bileaflet aortic valve with normal function. Cardiac catheterization showed 3-vessel coronary artery disease and an abnormal cluster of new vessels derived from the left atrial circumflex and posterior ventricle branches. Two- and 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography identified a semi-mobile oval left atrial mass with multiple internal cystic spaces, attached to the fossa ovalis region in the interatrial septum. The mass was resected. The pathological diagnosis was atrial myxoma.