Highlights a rare case of survival following acute aortic occlusion caused by an embolized cardiac myxoma that was not visible on echocardiography.
May prompt myxoma consideration in unexplained aortic occlusion despite negative echo; leaves open optimal diagnostics and management given extreme rarity.
This report describes a successful aortic embolectomy performed in an adult male admitted with sudden, complete aortic occlusion. The removed embolus disclosed histologic features of a cardiac myxoma. Repeated two-dimensional echocardiography did not show any intracavitary cardiac tumor. To our knowledge, this is only the sixth reported survival of a patient with this condition.
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