Key result
Preoperative transthoracic echocardiography provides underestimated clinical value in detecting concurrent left atrial myxoma in patients with breast cancer.
Why the study?
Breast cancer poses a significant global burden and cardiac myxoma is the most common primary benign cardiac neoplasm, highlighting the need to emphasize preoperative transthoracic echocardiography in concurrent cases.
Preoperative transthoracic echocardiography may be valuable for detecting incidental cardiac masses such as myxomas in patients undergoing surgery for breast cancer.
May support preoperative echocardiography in breast cancer patients; leaves open need for prospective validation before broader adoption.
Breast cancer has posed great global burden around the world, while cardiac myxoma is the most common primary benign cardiac neoplasm. Herein we reported a case of concurrent breast cancer and cardiac myxoma, emphasizing the importance of preoperative transthoracic echocardiography.
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Liu et al. (2022) studied this question. Preoperative transthoracic echocardiography provides underestimated clinical value in detecting concurrent left atrial myxoma in patients with breast cancer.
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