Left atrial myxoma: a surgical emergency. Apropos of 2 cases
Malergue, M.C.; Laurenceau, J.L.; Dumesnil, J.G.; Desaulniers, D.
Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux 70(1): 93-97
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9683 PMID: 139856 Document Number: 113986
This study reports on two more cases of left atrial myxoma. They were two women with embolic manifestation for several years and in whom the diagnosis was not clinically considered. It was made by echocardiography. Emergency surgery was applied in both cases one of whom without hemodynamic study. The presence of a recent brain embolism did not seem to us to be a contraindication to this surgery. In both cases the tumoral pedicle was implanted on the posterior wall of the left atrium, an unusual location.