Left Ventricular Myxoma Leading to Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction.
- Author:
Sook Kyung OH
1
;
Myung Hee LEE
;
Byung Hee LEE
;
Ji Yung SEO
;
Min Suk JUNG
;
Jang Ho PARK
;
Joon Sang LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital, Busan, Korea. dcljs@paran.com
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Myxoma;
Left ventricular outflow obstruction
- MeSH:
Dyspnea;
Echocardiography;
Female;
Heart Neoplasms;
Humans;
Middle Aged;
Mitral Valve;
Myxoma;
Thorax;
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
2012;83(6):781-785
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Cardiac myxoma is the most common primary cardiac tumor, but ventricular myxoma accounts for only 5% of the cases. We report a case of a 62-year-old woman with a left ventricular myxoma emerging from the ventricular side of the mitral valve that led to left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. The patient complained of chest discomfort and dyspnea. A mobile intracardiac mass was seen on echocardiography. The mass was excised and confirmed to be a myxoma by histopathological examination. She was discharged from the hospital without complications and remains asymptomatic.
