Abstract

OSIO, Luis F et al. Brain ischemia as initial sign of a left atrial myxoma: Report of one case. Rev. Col. Cardiol. [online]. 2008, vol.15, n.2, pp.90-94. ISSN 0120-5633.

Primary heart tumors are rare; 75% of them are benign and almost half of the benign ones are mixomas that in most cases are located in the left cavities. Clinical manifestations of myxomas depend on its localization site. Nevertheless, it is accepted that brain ischemia is the initial clinical manifestation in a third of atrial myxomas. The case of a 65 years old male patient in whom the first clinical manifestation of an atrial myxoma was an ischemic cerebrovascular event, is presented.

Keywords : brain embolism; atrial myxoma; brain ischemia.

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