Year: 2023
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Fourth Recurrence of Cardiac Myxoma in a Patient with Carney ComplexA 54-year-old male with previously known diagnosis of Carney complex and acromegaly was admitted with exertional dyspnea, chest pain, and palpitation.He had a prominent jaw and painless swelling of temporal part of the right upper eyelid (Figure 1A).Further physical examination revealed a solitary pedunculated cystic mass at the right flank area (Figure 1B and C).Electrocardiography showed sinus rhythm with pathological Q waves in the inferior leads.Transthoracic echocardiography exposed a multilobulated large mass in the left atrium with irregular borders, filling almost the whole chamber and protruding into the mitral valve during diastole (Figure 2A, B and Supplementary Video 1).There was global left ventricular hypokinesia with reduced ejection fraction.We learned that he had
Author: Damla Yalçınkaya
Institution: Ankara Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi
Language: English
Topic: Cardiac tumors and thrombi
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4367553262