Abstract

ECHEVERRI MARIN, Diego Alejandro et al. Atrial myxoma in a patient with patent foramen ovale: evaluation with multimodal imaging. Case report. Rev. Mex. Cardiol [online]. 2018, vol.29, n.1, pp.45-49. ISSN 0188-2198.

Primary cardiac tumors in adults are rare and mostly benign, approximately 75%, being the myxoma the most frequent in half of that percentage. One-fourth of the primary cardiac tumors are malignant and 95% of the cases are sarcomas. Metastases are more frequent than primary tumors. Cardiac surgery is indicated specially in benign masses and therapies such as chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy should be reserved for unresectable or metastatic malignancies. Hence the importance of a diagnostic approach, which leads to the best therapeutic conduct and in many cases, a multimodal image approach is necessary, as it is exposed in our case.

Keywords : Cardiac tumor; myxoma; heart neoplasms.

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