Stroke and myxoma


Ugurlu B., OTO Ö., Okutan H., Kutluk K., SİLİSTRELİ E. E., Sariosmanoglu N., ...Daha Fazla

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, cilt.8, sa.2, ss.130-133, 2000 (Scopus) identifier

Özet

Cardiac myxoma was detected by transthoracic echocardiography in 8 patients (aged 11 to 64 years) who were admitted between 1991 and 1999 with stroke or transient ischemic attacks, representing 80% of the total myxoma cases treated in this period. All patients underwent surgery and the myxomas were successfully removed. There were no recurrences during a mean follow-up of 3.1 years. In the presence of unexplained transient ischemic attack, cerebral infarction, or syncope, this relatively rare cardiac lesion should be suspected and investigated by transthoracic echocardiography.