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Echocardiographic and morphologic characteristics of left atrial myxoma and their relation to systemic embolism

1999; Elsevier BV; Volume: 83; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00156-3

1879-1913

Jong‐Won Ha, Woong-Chul Kang, Namsik Chung, Byung‐Chul Chang, Se‐Joong Rim, Jin-Wook Kwon, Yangsoo Jang, Won-Heum Shim, Seung‐Yun Cho, Sung Soon Kim, Sang-Ho Cho,

Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair

We examined the relation between the echocardiographic morphology of cardiac myxoma and systemic embolism in 25 patients. Two distinct types of myxoma could be identified by echocardiography: round type characterized by solid and round shape with nonmobile surface (n = 13, 52%), and polypoid type characterized by soft and irregular shape with mobile surface (n = 12, 48%); multiple regression analysis revealed the polypoid type of tumor was the only independent predictor of systemic embolism (p = 0.0029).