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MEDRANO-PLANA, Yuri et al. Embolic stroke as a perioperative complication of atrial myxoma. Cir. cir. [online]. 2022, vol.90, n.2, pp.248-250.  Epub 02-Mayo-2022. ISSN 2444-054X.  https://doi.org/10.24875/ciru.20001006.

Perioperative stroke is one of the complications that can occur during the surgical procedure and up to 30 days after it. A 52-year-old woman with no neurological symptoms and a diagnosis of intracardiac mass. She underwent cardiac surgery with resection of the tumor that was compatible with atrial myxoma. In the immediate postoperative, she presented neurological symptoms and was diagnosed with basal ganglia infarction of embolic etiology. Perioperative stroke appears most frequently in cardiovascular surgery but is rarely reported in heart tumor resection surgery.

Palabras llave : Stroke; Thoracic surgery; Myxoma.

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