• J Card Surg · Sep 2006

    Case Reports

    Left atrial myxoma presenting as acute inferior wall infarction-a case report.

    • Sankar N Madhu NM Department of Cardiac Surgery, International Centre for Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Diseases, Chennai, India. madhusankar@hotmail.com, R Karthik Vaidyanathan, G N Prasad, and K M Cherian.
    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, International Centre for Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Diseases, Chennai, India. madhusankar@hotmail.com
    • J Card Surg. 2006 Sep 1; 21 (5): 478-9.

    AbstractAcute myocardial infarction is a rare form of presentation in patients with left atrial myxoma. With wider availability of echocardiography, more and more patients with atrial myxomas will be diagnosed. This report describes a patient with left atrial myxoma who presented features of acute myocardial infarction and had surgical removal of LA myxoma.

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