Key result
Surgical removal of a large LA myxoma resolves severe HF and systemic symptoms.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights the diagnostic challenges of cardiac myxoma due to non-specific clinical features and the importance of modern imaging techniques.
Myxoma resection may reverse severe HF; single case leaves open broader diagnostic and management implications.
Cardiac myxoma is the most common primary benign cardiac tumor (up to 50% of all primary cardiac neoplasms). The implementation of the modern imaging techniques into the clinical practice, particularly, 2D echocardiography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance tomography (MRI) results to the prompt diagnosis of the myxoma. However, the absence of specific clinical features, insufficient awareness of this condition among the physicians along with a rare prevalence, may lead to a misdiagnosis. This case report is notable for the relatively late diagnosis of a giant left atrial myxoma due to a number of circumstances but with successful surgical treatment.
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Фомин et al. (2021) conducted a case report in Cardiac myxoma (n=1). Surgical removal of cardiac myxoma was evaluated on Symptom resolution and successful tumor removal. Surgical removal of a large left atrial myxoma led to the resolution of severe heart failure and non-specific systemic symptoms in a 56-year-old man.
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