Complicated sporadic cardiac myxomas: a second recurrence and myxomatous cerebral aneurysms in one patient. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A second recurrence of an excised nonfamilial cardiac myxoma is rare. Myxomatous cerebral aneurysms as a complication of cardiac myxomas are equally rare. A unique case of a patient with a total of 4 myxomas over a 20-year interval is presented. Her most recent presentation was a second recurrence of a left atrial myxoma, a de novo right atrial myxoma, and multiple cerebral myxomatous aneurysms. The challenging reconstruction of the normal anatomy was achieved with the use of porcine extracellular matrix patches. A diagnostic cerebral angiogram was later performed, and the aneurysms will be monitored for growth and possible intervention.

publication date

  • December 25, 2013

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3886396

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1155/2013/642394

PubMed ID

  • 24455387

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 2013