Key result
Transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography combined with gadolinium-enhanced MRI successfully detected and characterized a rare myxoma on the atrial side of the posterior mitral valve leaflet.
Case Report (n=1)
Multimodality imaging including echocardiography and contrast-enhanced MRI is useful for detecting and characterizing rare mitral valve myxomas to guide surgical management.
May support multimodality imaging for rare mitral myxomas in surgical planning; leaves open generalizability pending larger series.
Myxomas of the mitral valve diagnosed during life are exceedingly rare. We employed transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging enhanced by gadolinium-diethylene-triamine-pentaacetic acid in a patient with palpitations. After these examinations clearly demonstrated a myxoma on the atrial side of the posterior mitral valve leaflet, urgent surgery was performed. When a small tumour of the mitral valve exists, these examinations are useful not only for detecting and characterizing the tumour, but also for deciding the optimal surgical management.
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Kamata et al. (1995) conducted a case report in Myxoma of the mitral valve (n=1). Echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging was evaluated on Detection and characterization of the tumour. Transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography combined with gadolinium-enhanced MRI successfully detected and characterized a rare myxoma on the atrial side of the posterior mitral valve leaflet.
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