[Left atrial myxoma: three-dimensional echocardiographic assessment].
The patient was a 70-year-old female with antecedents of diabetes mellitus and hypertension, being followed up in the outpatient care clinic due to chronic anemia after corrective surgery for angiodysplasia of the proximal jejunum, in whom an image suggestive of left atrial myxoma was found on routine transthoracic echocardiography. Then multiplanar transesophageal echocardiography and 3-dimensional echocardiography were performed, showing the latter better anatomical details of the tumor. The patient underwent exeresis of the mass with anatomicopathological confirmation of the tumor. Three-dimensional echocardiography proved to be a technique that can provide additional contributions to the diagnostic investigation of structural heart diseases.
Vieira
Marcelo L C
ML
Instituto do Caoração do Hospital das Clínicas-FMUSP. mlcvieira@aol.com
Ianni
Bárbara M
BM
Mady
Charles
C
Encinas
Javier
J
Pommerantzeff
Pablo M A
PM
Fernandes
Paulo P
PP
Leal
Samira B
SB
Mathias
Wilson
W
Andrade
José L
JL
Ramires
José A F
JA
D000368:Aged; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D009232:Myxoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*