Key result
Radiosurgery with a single dose of 12 Gray successfully controlled two large cerebral aneurysms that developed two years after the resection of a cardiac myxoma.
Why the study?
The occurrence of cerebral aneurysms after resection of cardiac myxoma is very rare, with only 40 reports in the medical literature.
Case Report (n=1)
Radiosurgery may be an effective treatment option for delayed cerebral aneurysms originating from previously resected cardiac myxomas.
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May support radiosurgery for rare post-myxoma aneurysms; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Primary cardiac tumors are very rare, accounting for 0,001 – 0,03% in autopsy series, cardiac myxoma (CM) account for approximately 50% of them. Association between CM and cerebral aneurism is well documented in this condition but the occurrence of cerebral aneurism after resection of CM is very rare there is only 40 reports in medical literature. We present a case of 45 years old female patient with multiple cerebral aneurysms 2 years after a successful resection of cardiac myxoma, submitted to radiosurgery for 2 bigger aneurisms with good result. This report ads to literature new clinical findings and a hypothesis of radiosurgery as an effective option of treatment for cerebral aneurisms with origin in CM.
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Oliveira et al. (2022) conducted a case report in Multiple cerebral aneurysms secondary to cardiac myxoma (n=1). Radiosurgery was evaluated on Control of irradiated lesions. Radiosurgery with a single dose of 12 Gray successfully controlled two large cerebral aneurysms that developed two years after the resection of a cardiac myxoma.
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