Ventricular myxoma presenting as acute visual loss.
We report a case of left ventricular myxoma with embolization to the left posterior cerebral artery, causing acute visual loss. The tumor was successfully resected and a follow-up echocardiography after 21 months revealed no evidence of tumor recurrence. The patient also had a past history of testicular seminoma. We believe that this is the first case report of an association of cardiac myxoma and testicular seminoma.
Department of Internal Medicine, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City 37614, USA.
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Chidambaram
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D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D018239:Seminoma; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology*