A Giant Left Atrial Myxoma Causing Severe Pulmonary Hypertension. A Case Report+
Mehmet Bostan*, Yüksel Çiçek*, Ahmet Temiz**, Cemal Aslan***, Aytun Çanga**
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Abstract
Myxoma is the most common type of primary cardiac tumors. Majority of cardiac myxomas are solitary and benign. It usually occurs in the left atrium and has a pedicle attached to the interatrial septum around the fossa ovalis. It is associated with different clinical symptoms of mechanical intracardiac obstruction, embolism or positional disturbances but may rarely remain asymptomatic for a long time as in our case. Pulmonary hypertension is a rare clinical condition associated with myxomas.
In this paper, we present a large, immobile, left atrial myxoma filling the whole left atrium and causing pulmonary hypertension.
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