Stroke from a large left atrial myxoma.

Hirose, MD, Hitoshi
Youdelman, MD, Benjamin A.
Entwistle, MD, John W.C.

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Publication date

January 2008

DOI

10.2174/1874192400802010115

Publisher

Jefferson Digital Commons

ISSN

1874-1924

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Abstract

A 36-year-old male involved in a car accident was found to have an embolic stroke due to a left atrial myxoma. Open heart surgery was delayed 4 weeks to decrease the risk of neurologic complications from the anticoagulation required for cardiopulmonary bypass. After resection of the myxoma, intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography found severe mitral regurgitation, which was repaired