Key result
Immediate surgical removal of the left atrial myxoma with concomitant percutaneous embolectomy successfully relieved ischemic symptoms in a 9-year-old boy.
Case Report (n=1)
Cardiac myxoma should be considered in children presenting with acute embolic events, as immediate intervention can prevent further complications.
Alerts clinicians to myxoma in pediatric acute aortic occlusion; extends sparse case reports but leaves management questions open.
Cardiac myxoma is rare in children and often associated with cerebrovascular events. Reported herein is the case of a 9-year-old boy who presented with acute obstruction of the aortic bifurcation associated with a huge left atrial (LA) myxoma, thereby leading to acute ischemia of the lower extremities. Immediate surgical removal of the LA myxoma with concomitant percutaneous embolectomy using a Forgathy catheter was done, with relief of ischemic symptoms. Cardiac myxoma should always be considered in the case of acute embolic events in children, given that it needs immediate intervention to prevent further complications.
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Lee et al. (2015) conducted a case report in Left atrial myxoma with acute obstruction of the aortic bifurcation (n=1). Surgical removal of LA myxoma with concomitant percutaneous embolectomy was evaluated on Relief of ischemic symptoms. Immediate surgical removal of the left atrial myxoma with concomitant percutaneous embolectomy successfully relieved ischemic symptoms in a 9-year-old boy.
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