Population
A woman with left atrial myxoma presenting with progressive disturbance of intellectual function, headache…
Design
Case_report
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Consider cardiac myxoma in unexplained cerebral hematomas with cognitive decline; extends embolic spectrum but hypothesis-generating from single case.
This case highlights that left atrial myxoma can present with intellectual decline and cerebral hematomas due to embolic plugging of small arteries, even in the absence of overt stroke.
Frank et al. (1979) studied this question.
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