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N Madhu Sankar1, R Karthik Vaidyanathan, G N Prasad
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, International Centre for Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Diseases, Chennai, India. madhusankar@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Acute myocardial infarction is a rare form of presentation in patients with left atrial myxoma. With wider availability of echocardiography, more and more patients with atrial myxomas will be diagnosed. This report describes a patient with left atrial myxoma who presented features of acute myocardial infarction and had surgical removal of LA myxoma.
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