Key result
Echocardiography detects familial atrial myxoma in a parent and child, enabling successful surgical removal.
Case Report (n=2)
Echocardiography is an effective tool for diagnosing familial cardiac myxomas, detecting recurrence, and screening family members.
May support echocardiography for family screening in cardiac myxoma; hypothesis-generating from Level 5 evidence, requiring prospective validation.
Familial and biatrial myxomas of the heart have rarely been described. We describe a familial atrial myxoma involving a parent with biatrial and a child with a left atrial myxoma. Atrial myxomas were diagnosed preoperatively by echocardiography and successfully removed at operation. Echocardiography can be used in the diagnosis of cardiac myxoma, detection of its possible recurrence and for screening other members of the family.
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Oram et al. (1991) conducted a case report in Familial atrial myxoma (n=2). Echocardiography and surgical removal was evaluated. Echocardiography successfully diagnosed familial atrial myxoma in a parent and child, allowing for successful surgical removal and highlighting its utility for family screening.
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