A Case of Decreased Swallowing Function Due to Cardiac Myxoma
- VernacularTitle:心臓粘液腫による嚥下機能低下をきたしていた一例
- Author:
Sumiyo AKAZAWA
;
Seiko MIURA
;
Yasuhiro NAGAYOSHI
;
Junya FUKUSHIMA
;
Takahiro NISHINO
;
Hiroji NAGATA
;
Taigo NAGAYAMA
;
Kazuaki NISHIKI
;
Taishi FUJII
;
Daisuke SAKAMOTO
;
Tetsuya MINAMI
;
Taketsugu TSUCHIYA
;
Hidetaka URAMOTO
;
Shigeru KUDOH
;
Tamaki TAKANO
;
Takaki MIWA
;
Michihiko KITAYAMA
;
Shigeru SKAMOTO
- Keywords: Cardiac myxoma; Ortner's syndrome; left recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy; dysphagia
- From:An Official Journal of the Japan Primary Care Association 2022;45(1):31-35
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
- Abstract: The case was a 77-year-old man. He had dizziness and dysphagia for 2 years, and underwent detailed screening at the internal medicine department for general malaise and bloody sputum. He was hospitalized for aspiration pneumonia due to dysphagia of unknown origin. This time, he visited a local doctor with palpitations and shortness of breath. Echocardiography indicated a left atrial tumor involving the mitral valve and arrhythmia. Emergency surgery was performed to remove the left atrial myxoma and close the patch at our hospital's cardiovascular surgery department. After the excision, swallowing function was restored, and the patient was diagnosed with postoperative Ortner's syndrome. We report a case where echocardiography was considered important as a detailed investigation of the cause of swallowing dysfunction and dizziness.