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Rare Association between Giant Right Ventricular Myxoma and Right Coronary Artery Tumour Blush with Complicating Pulmonary Tumour Embolism

Authors :
Stefan Buchholz
Shreeja Mehrotra
Allison Morton
Deepak Mehrotra
Robin Yeong Hong Goh
Source :
Case Reports in Cardiology, Vol 2019 (2019), Case Reports in Cardiology
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Hindawi Limited, 2019.

Abstract

Cardiac myxoma is a benign primary cardiac tumour which can present with nonspecific symptoms of right heart failure, syncope, exertional dyspnea, and pulmonary embolism. We describe a case of a right ventricular myxoma complicated with bilateral pulmonary embolism, with an incidental right coronary artery fistula but otherwise normal coronary anatomy on coronary angiogram. This case report emphasizes the importance of performing a transesophageal echo in the setting of pulmonary embolism to search for the origin of thrombus/tumour, and performing a comprehensive assessment is also necessary to rule out coronary artery disease, coronary artery fistula that may also represent a tumour blush.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20906412 and 20906404
Volume :
2019
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Case Reports in Cardiology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....4378abb4aa38c97b103806b04deb178b