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Asymptomatic Patient with an Uncommonly Located Myxoma in the Left Ventricle Attached to Chordae Tendinae

1Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine. SUNY Downstate- Health Science University, Brooklyn, New York, United States- 11203


American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2020, Vol. 8 No. 9, 313-314
DOI: 10.12691/ajmcr-8-9-14
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Jonathan Francois, Eric Kupferstein, Rishard Abdul, Joseph Casillas, Ishmam Ibtida, Moro Salifu, Samy I. McFarlane. Asymptomatic Patient with an Uncommonly Located Myxoma in the Left Ventricle Attached to Chordae Tendinae. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2020; 8(9):313-314. doi: 10.12691/ajmcr-8-9-14.

Correspondence to: Samy  I. McFarlane, Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine. SUNY Downstate- Health Science University, Brooklyn, New York, United States- 11203. Email: smcfarlane@downstate.edu

Abstract

Cardiac tumors are rare disorders with an incidence of <0.33%. Primary cardiac tumors are extremely rare with an incidence between 0.0017% and 0.19%. Nearly 75% of cardiac tumors are benign with atrial myxomas representing nearly 50%. The majority of cardiac myxomas (75%) are located in the left atrium, 23% in right atrium and 2% in the ventricular cavity. This report presents a rare case of an asymptomatic patient with a left ventricular myxoma attached to the chordae tendinae of the mitral valve.

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