Key result
LA myxoma protruding through the mitral valve presents with LV failure and seizures.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights the importance of early transthoracic echocardiography in patients presenting with heart failure to identify structural causes such as atrial myxoma.
Supports early echocardiography in heart failure with seizures; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Cardiac myxoma is a benign (non-malignant) neoplasm that represents the most common primary tumour of the heart. We present the case of a 36 year old woman with background hypertension who presented with features of left ventricular failure and seizures, and was found during transthoracic echocardiography to have left atrial myxoma protruding through the mitral valve orifice. She subsequently had excision of the atrial myxoma. The usefulness of early transthoracic echocardiography in any patient presenting with features of heart failure even when the aetiology seems obvious cannot be over-emphasised.
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Ojji et al. (2012) conducted a case report in Left atrial myxoma (n=1). Excision of atrial myxoma was evaluated. A 36-year-old woman presenting with left ventricular failure and seizures was diagnosed with a left atrial myxoma protruding through the mitral valve orifice, which was subsequently excised.
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