Rapid growth of a left atrial myxoma. Serial two-dimensional echocardiographic observation over eighteen months

Int J Cardiol. 1997 Aug 29;61(1):85-7. doi: 10.1016/s0167-5273(97)00109-5.

Abstract

We encountered a patient with rapid progressing left atrial myxoma in whom two-dimensional echocardiography was serially obtained over eighteen months. The horizontal and longitudinal diameters showed a linear 2.5 fold increase, while the size of the base attached to the left atrial wall remained unchanged. Therefore, the last echocardiogram obtained just before surgery showed the characteristic pendular motion of left atrial myxoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Disease Progression
  • Echocardiography*
  • Heart Atria*
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Myxoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Myxoma / pathology
  • Myxoma / surgery