Unremitting embolus from cardiac myxoma at circumflex artery trifurcation.
Embolisation of coronary artery from cardiac myxoma is very rare and it is not clear what happens with embolic material inside coronary artery after myocardial infarction. The natural course of myxomatous embolus is important because it determines the mode of surgical intervention. Different options of the course of embolus have been speculated, from spontaneous resorption to growth at artery wall. We report a case of embolisation of the circumflex artery trifurcation from a villous left atrial myxoma. The course of the embolus was displayed by coronary angiography repeated 6 months after myocardial infarction. Unlike the previously published case report, we found the embolus to be unremitting.
Milicevic
Goran
G
Gavranovic
Zeljka
Z
Cupic
Hrvoje
H
Cerovec
Dusko
D
Stipic
Hrvoje
H
Jukic
Mladen
M
Letica
Dalibor
D
Predrijevac
Mladen
M
D000328:Adult; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004617:Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D035583:Rare Diseases; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013177:Sports; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D000925:Anticoagulants