Combination of right atrial and left ventricular myxoma

Left ventricular mass: myxoma or thrombus?

Patient with embolic episode should always be evaluated for cardiac mass. Mass in left ventricular can be a myxoma or thrombus even in a normal functioning heart. In either case, mobile mass with embolic potential should be surgically resected.

Myxoma of the left ventricle

This report concerns a 69-year-old woman who presented with an asymptomatic myxoma in the left ventricle. The tumor was successfully excised. We provide a very brief review of 72 other published cases of surgically treated left ventricular myxoma.

Left ventricular myxoma: Missed vs metastatic

Left ventricular myxomas account for 2.5% of all cardiac myxoma cases. There are very few case reports on left ventricular myxoma (LVM) presented after complete surgical resection of left atrial myxoma. Here we report a case of a 58-year-old male presented to the hospital for transient limb weakness, numbness and dysarthria. Magnetic resonance image of the brain revealed multiple thromboembolic cerebrovascular accidents. Transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) revealed a left atrial myxoma. It was resected completely with good surgical margins. After one and half year he started having dizziness, and transient right sided weakness. Computer tomography scan of the head revealed a progression of thromboembolic disease. TTE revealed a LVM that was confirmed by transesophageal echocardiogram. It was resected with good surgical margins 3 wk after recurrent cerebrovascular accident.