Constitutional symptoms (e.g., fever, weight loss) are seen in around 30 percent of patients. Laboratory abnormalities. (e.g., anemia and elevations in the ...
Right Atrial Myxoma. Varun Nivargi1, Manuel Durairaj2, Chandrashekhar Makhale2. 1Cardiology Fellow, 2Cardiology, Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune,. Maharashtra.
from repetitive âwrecking ballâ effect of the tumor on or across the valve. On physical exam, systolic and diastolic murmurs are auscultated in over 50% of patients ...
bronchogenic carcinoma, leading to delay diagnosis or misdiagnosis. A 49-year-old man presented with a chronic cough, hemoptysis, and pleuritic chest pain.
Mar 9, 1989 - Postgraduate Medical Journal (1989) 65, 671 - 673. Infected atrial ... D The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, 1989. Correspondence: ...
asbestosis. Sarcoidosis. Upper lobe and peribronchovascular predominance often seen. Silicosis/coal worker's pneumoconiosis. Upper lobar predominance ...
Jan 24, 1996 - dockside crane. Clinical and radiological .... David Bowrey, Rhys Thomas, Rupert Evans, Peter Richmond. Accident and. Emergency.
A case of left atrial myxoma is reported in a 14-year- old female patient ... ry tumors of the heart, benign or malign, are found in. 0.001% .... 56% of them. The patients can present with atypical chest ... fibrillation, atrial flutter and other tac
Jun 8, 2018 - The majority of LAMs present with symptoms secondary to ... constitutional symptoms and elevated inflammatory markers, several cases in our ...
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tem and elsewhere in the vascular tree. However, nonspecific .... Bienfait HP, Moll LC. Fatal cerebral embolism in a ... tre study in 154 patients. Eur Heart J 1993 ...
Jul 12, 1983 - through a national health fellowship grant to Kristan L'Abbe, ... MAO Y, SMITH MH: The lung cancer epidemic among Canadian women.
May 10, 2012 - Clinical examination revealed cachexia, pallor but no ... anastomosis, and the specimen was sent for gross examination and histopathology ...
Jun 18, 2010 - she is symptom free on six months follow up. ... atrial mass excision with coronary revascularization. ... e-mail: [email protected]. Indian J ...
An atypical atrial flutter was diagnosed on ECG (Figure 1). ... activation sequence resembling the same counter-clockwise atrial flutter that was previously.
Magnin-Poull I, De Chillou C, Miljoen H, Andronache M, Aliot E. Mechanisms of right atrial tachycardia occurring late after surgical closure of atrial septal defects.
Dilaporkan seorang wanita 43 tahun dengan kcluhan sesak napas dan ... Indonesia of left atrial myxoma with mitral regurgitation manifestation, which was ...
murmur extending into the first sound and early ... pericardial friction rub; the intensity of the murmur .... tumour while the patient was still on the operating table.
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May 14, 2016 - chemotherapy presented with a right atrial mass and the provisional diagnosis of myxoma ... monary bypass support and cardioplegic arrest.
Aug 22, 2005 - attached to interatrial septum (IAS) and measured 7x4.5 cm. The patient ... around the Cilvian sulcus, which was indicative of an infarction.
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lung biopsy was considered, but the thoracic surgical team declined because of the evidence for active infection. Antibacterial therapy was recommenced with ...
He was eventually diagnosed to have an adenocarcinoma of the lung, and was ... left leg. Trans-thoracic echocardiography ruled out any vegetation. Screening ...
May 3, 1983 - tion of lung cancer or of its successful surgical removal. Cerebral embolism has been described in non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis due to ...
Thorax 1983;38:870
Lung cancer masquerading as atrial myxoma AH AL-HILLAWI, R HAYWARD, N McI JOHNSON, S PAYNE, T TREASURE From the Middlesex Hospital, London Case report A 53 year old Greek seaman and lifelong heavy smoker
(60 cigarettes a day) was referred for treatment of a suspected bronchial carcinoma. He had noticed some palpitations in the preceding weeks and a chest radiograph showed a mass 8 cm in diameter within the apical segment of the left lower lobe. The day before he attended he had noted headache, difficulty with vision, and left sided paraesthesiae. On examination he was in sinus rhythm and had an abnormal cardiac impulse, which was tapping in quality. There was a loud first heart sound but no opening snap. A mid-diastolic murmur was heard intermittently. He had left homonymous hemianopia. Carcinoma of the bronchus with cerebral secondaries was diagnosed clinically. Fibreoptic bronchoscopy showed an obstruction in the apical segment of the left lower lobe but a biopsy was Medial surface of the left lung. A - apex; LL - lower lobe; inconclusive. Percutaneous fine needle aspiration biopsy T - tumour; TE - tumour extension. confirmed the diagnosis of malignancy, the cell type being The patient made a good recovery and left hospital with uncertain. Computerised tomography showed an abnormality in the right posterior cerebral cortex which had the normal heart sounds and no neurological signs. appearances of infarction rather than secondary tumour. In Discussion view of the abnormal heart sounds the possibility of embolism from the heart was considered and echocardiography In this case the occurrence of cerebral embolism and the was performed to exclude coexistent mitral stenosis. Two confusing findings on auscultation, suggestive but not typidimensional echocardiography showed an intracardiac cal of mitral stenosis, were characteristic of the presentamass with the appearances of a left atrial myxoma. tion of left atrial myxoma. Furthermore, the echoAlthough the possibility that this was an intracardiac cardiographic findings were considered to support this extension of the bronchial carcinoma was considered the diagnosis. While lung cancers may affect the left atrium, appearances were thought suggestive of myxoma. As there such a large intracardiac extension of tumour lying free had already been one cerebral infarct urgent surgery was within the pulmonary vein is uncommon. It has been performed to prevent further embolism. reported at necropsy when widespread metastases have At operation via a median sternotomy bypass was estab- occurred.12 We have found no record of a similar presentalished and the left atrium was opened through the usual tion of lung cancer or of its successful surgical removal. right sided incision parallel to the atrioventricular groove. Cerebral embolism has been described in non-bacterial A 20 cm semilobulated tongue of tissue (fig) passing from thrombotic endocarditis due to underlying lung carthe left atrium through the mitral valve was discovered. An cinoma,3 but there was no evidence of tumour invasion of intra-atrial attachment was sought but the tumour was seen the heart or vegetations of the valves in this case. Whether to be protruding from the left inferior pulmonary vein. cerebral embolism was due to the tumour itself or to This vessel was opened from the outside and the tumour, thrombus or platelets from its surface remains uncertain; together with the mass in the apical segment of the left the resolution of the neurological signs suggests the latter. lower lobe, was removed from the left side of the heart. It was removed complete with the left lung. Histological References examination of the tumour showed it to be an anaplastic bronchial carcinoma. Hanfling SM. Metastatic cancer to the heart. Circulation 1960; Address for correspondence: Dr AH Al-Hillawi, Department of Medicine, Middlesex Hospital, London WIN SAA.
