Giant left atrial myxoma associated with prolonged fever

Authors

  • Humberto Luis Ramos González Hospital Provincial Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”. Santa Clara. Villa Clara.
  • Virginia Concepción González Hospital Provincial Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”. Santa Clara. Villa Clara.
  • Damián Perez Cabrera Hospital Provincial Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”. Santa Clara. Villa Clara.

Keywords:

myxoma, echocardiography

Abstract

Myxomas are the most common primary tumor affecting the heart. Infection of these tumors is rare and sometimes its clinical presentation is indistinguishable from an uninfected myxoma. The case of a 49-year-old female patient with a persistent fever of probable bacterial origin, which leads to antibiotic treatment, is reported. It was decided to perform a transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography to reach a diagnosis. Surgery was performed, the tumor was resected (the result of the biopsy showed it was an atrial myxoma) and the subsequent clinical course was uneventful.

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Ramos González HL, Concepción González V, Perez Cabrera D. Giant left atrial myxoma associated with prolonged fever. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2012 Oct. 6 [cited 2025 Sep. 4];6(4):85-8. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/241

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 4 (2012): October-December

Section

Case Reports

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