What is it about?
Atrial Myxoma are the most common primary cardiac benign tumors. There is a diversity in the clinical presentation; it may resemble many cardiovascular or systemic diseases.This paper discusses the approach to a provisory healthy patient with ischemic pain , presented during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Why is it important?
This tumor is rare, the duration between the onset of symptoms to finally reaching the correct diagnosis is usually prolonged, and meanwhile, the patient can experience irreversible neurological damage or even death. Hence, we would like to highlight the role of echocardiogram in detecting AMs.
Perspectives
As during the COVID-19 pandemic, the viral infection is known to cause a hyper- coagulable state; a high index of suspicion should be there to exclude other possible causes of embolization.
Alma Al Mansour
EHS
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This page is a summary of: A Case Report of Atrial Myxoma in the Time of Corona Presenting with Systemic Embolization, Dubai Medical Journal, April 2022, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000523927.
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