Case Report (n=1)
Cardiac myxoma should be considered as a rare potential cause of sudden cardiac death.
Alerts clinicians to rare sudden death risk from untreated atrial myxoma; leaves open optimal intervention timing in similar cases.
Despite the huge improvement in cardiovascular care over the past several decades and the decline in cardiovascular deaths, sudden cardiac death (SCD) continues to present a nationwide health problem accounting to more than half of all deaths from cardiovascular disease. Majority of these cases are related to coronary artery disease and arrhythmias, however, a very small number of these cases are secondary to cardiac neoplasms. These neoplasms commonly present with conduction abnormalities or symptoms secondary to valvular disease such as dyspnea, orthopnea, cough and/or edema. This is a rare case of a 63-year-old gentleman who suffered sudden cardiac death secondary to a cardiac myxoma.
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Hasan et al. (2020) conducted a case report in Atrial Myxoma (n=1). Atrial myxoma was evaluated on Sudden cardiac death.
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