Key result
Echocardiography accurately detects and sizes a left atrial myxoma presenting with syncope and AF.
Why the study?
Echocardiography has rapidly established itself as a reliable, noninvasive technique for diagnosis and size estimation of left atrial tumors.
Population
1 patient with atrial fibrillation, no heart murmurs, and recurrent syncope
Comparison
Echocardiography diagnosis vs cineangiocardiography confirmation
Design
Case report
Authors
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Echocardiography may enable noninvasive left atrial myxoma diagnosis in syncope; leaves open its accuracy versus angiography in broader populations.
Case Report (n=1)
Echocardiography is a reliable noninvasive technique for the diagnosis and size estimation of left atrial myxomas.
Abdulla M. Abdulla (1977) conducted a case report in Left atrial myxoma (n=1). Echocardiography was evaluated on Diagnosis and size determination of left atrial myxoma. Echocardiography successfully diagnosed and accurately estimated the size of a left atrial myxoma in a 68-year-old man presenting with atrial fibrillation and recurrent syncope.
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