May 27, 2017Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Cardiac Myxoma: A Rare Case Series of 3 Patients and a Literature Review

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Population

3 patients with extremely rare cases of cardiac myxoma

Design

Case_series

Authors

HWHaiyan WangShandong Provincial QianFoShan Hospital QLQuan LiKunming Institute of Zoology MXMinghua XueShandong Provincial QianFoShan Hospital

Discussion

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Implication

Alerts clinicians to rare myxoma variants on echocardiography; extends case reports but leaves management questions open.

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Population

3 patients with extremely rare cases of cardiac myxoma (one originating from the annulus of the tricuspid after valvuloplasty, one associated with left atrial thrombus and severe mitral stenosis, and one combined with severe calcification)

Intervention

Diagnosis by echocardiography and pathology

Outcome

Clinical presentations and diagnostic characteristics

Echocardiography and pathology remain effective for diagnosing cardiac myxomas, even in extremely rare presentations.

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Wang et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a051102fba2ba61ab55fa40 https://doi.org/10.1002/jum.14264

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Echocardiography

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Cardiac Myxoma: A Rare Case Series of 3 Patients and a Literature Review

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Implication

Structured PICO

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