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Rev Mex Cardiol 2018; 29 (1)

Atrial myxoma in a patient with patent foramen ovale: evaluation with multimodal imaging. Case report

Echeverri MDA, Durango GL, López AF, Fernández RR, Correa LLA

Language: English
References: 12
Page: 45-49
PDF size: 276.13 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Primary cardiac tumors in adults are rare and mostly benign, approximately 75%, being the myxoma the most frequent in half of that percentage. One-fourth of the primary cardiac tumors are malignant and 95% of the cases are sarcomas. Metastases are more frequent than primary tumors. Cardiac surgery is indicated specially in benign masses and therapies such as chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy should be reserved for unresectable or metastatic malignancies. Hence the importance of a diagnostic approach, which leads to the best therapeutic conduct and in many cases, a multimodal image approach is necessary, as it is exposed in our case.


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