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Myxoma embolization during electroconvulsive therapy. An unusual presentation
Asaf Miller1, Hanna Amouri1, Maged Makhoul2
1Medical Intensive Care Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Abstract:
We describe a comatose female patient after electroconvulsive therapy. Head imaging showed diffuse cerebral emboli. Transesophageal echocardiography showed left atrial myxoma which was resected soon thereafter. The article describes the presentation, complications and treatment of myxomas and discusses electroconvulsive therapy, its adverse events and the possible relation to myxoma embolization.

