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Natural Growth of Left Atrial Myxoma
Lilaf Abdulmajid1, Haroun El Addouli2, Bernard Paelinck3
1Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium.
Abstract:
Myxomas are common benign cardiac tumors that can cause life-threatening events. Urgent surgical excision is needed. Therefore, little is known about their growth rate. We present a peculiar case of an incidental left atrial myxoma offering calculation of a growth curve over more than 6 years. The myxoma was incidentally seen retrospectively on computed tomography scans in follow-up for bladder carcinoma in a 71-year-old patient. The patient underwent surgical resection of the myxoma. The authors emphasize that myxoma can be unnoticed on non-electrocardiogram-gated computed tomography scans. In the presented case, cardiac myxoma appears to grow linearly over time.
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