title: Left atrial myxoma associated with obstructive coronary artery disease.
abstract: We describe a case of a 67 year-old patient with obstructive coronary artery disease that, in the preoperative survey for inguinal herniorraphy surgery, discovered, by a two-dimensional echocardiogram, a tumor in left atrium, mobile, non-obstructive. The patient underwent a cineangiocoronariography showing severe stenosis in the left anterior descending artery, moderate stenosis in the left circumflex artery, near the origin of the first marginal branch, and a non-obstructive plaque in the right coronary artery. There was also moderate left ventricular dysfunction. After that, the patient has gone coronary artery bypass surgery and resection of the left atrial tumor. The histological exam revealed that the tumor was, in fact, a myxoma.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Laranjeiras, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. ronaldo@floralia.com.br
authors.forename: Ronaldo Altenburg Odebrecht Curi
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Gismondi
authors.forename: Renato
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kaufman
authors.forename: Gabriel Angelo de Cata Preta
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Correa
authors.forename: César
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nascimento
authors.forename: Luiz Henrique
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Weitzel
authors.forename: José Oscar Brito
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Reis
authors.forename: Antônio Sérgio Cordeiro
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: da Rocha
authors.forename: Ademir Batista
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: da Cunha
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D004452:Echocardiography; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D012720:Severity of Illness Index