{"title":"Left atrial myxoma diagnosed and characterized by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.","authors":"A Deetjen, S Möllmann, T Dill, C W Hamm","doi":"10.1007/s00392-005-0278-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 71 year old man was referred for MRI investigation of the heart. He had a history of progressive dyspnea. Due to his echocardiographical findings and the known history of permanent atrial fibrillation, his cardiologist suspected atrial thrombi. MRI investigation of the heart showed a left atrial mass pedunculated at the atrial septum which showed signal enhancement after intravenous administration of gadolinium-DTPA. Left atrial myxoma was suspected. The patient underwent surgery with resection of the tumor and patch-occlusion of the atrial septum. Histology confirmed a polypoid cardial myxoma.</p>","PeriodicalId":23757,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie","volume":"94 10","pages":"695-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s00392-005-0278-2","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-005-0278-2","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A 71 year old man was referred for MRI investigation of the heart. He had a history of progressive dyspnea. Due to his echocardiographical findings and the known history of permanent atrial fibrillation, his cardiologist suspected atrial thrombi. MRI investigation of the heart showed a left atrial mass pedunculated at the atrial septum which showed signal enhancement after intravenous administration of gadolinium-DTPA. Left atrial myxoma was suspected. The patient underwent surgery with resection of the tumor and patch-occlusion of the atrial septum. Histology confirmed a polypoid cardial myxoma.