This case highlights a rare presentation of acute myocardial infarction in a pediatric patient caused by coronary embolization from a left atrial myxoma, successfully treated with surgical resection and embolectomy.
Successful surgical management possible in rare pediatric myxoma embolization; leaves open optimal screening and long-term strategies.
We present a 15-year-old white male who presented with an acute myocardial infarction secondary to embolisation of tissue from a left atrial myxoma. He successfully underwent resection of the myxoma, and embolectomy of the fragments of tumour lodged in the coronary artery.
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