Multiple cerebral aneurysms in a child with cardiac myxoma.
Neurologic involvement is not uncommon in cardiac myxoma, yet its association with multiple cerebral aneurysms is rare, especially in children. We describe a patient with left atrial and ventricular myxoma, who otherwise lacked cardiac symptomatology and did not exhibit auscultatory, roentgenologic, or electro-cardiographic evidence of heart disease. The clinical presentation was a sudden attack of a cerebrovascular occlusive disorder. Multiple fusiform aneurysms at the frontal and parietal branches of the left anterior and middle cerebral arteries were demonstrated on cerebral angiograms. The myxomas were surgically removed and the patient improved.
Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
P C
PC
Hung
H S
HS
Wang
M L
ML
Chou
S C
SC
Huang
W J
WJ
Su
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology*; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications*