Neurologic imaging is important in patients with cardiac myxoma to detect and prevent secondary complications from neurological embolization.
Neurologic imaging may aid early detection of myxoma-related emboli; leaves open optimal protocols pending larger studies.
Cardiac myxoma is the most common benign tumor of the heart. In most cases, it is in the left atrium, which can generate neurological embolization; that can manifest as an ischemic event, aneurysm formation and less frequently as brain metastases. This is a case report of a 56-year-old male patient with cerebral embolisms secondary to a left cardiac myxoma. In these patients, the role of neurologic imaging is to detect the firsts complications and avoid secondary complications.
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