Localized pulmonary edema in the right upper lobe associated with left atrial myxoma.
Localized pulmonary edema in the right upper lobe has usually been reported in patients with mitral incompetence. Cardiac myxomas that involve the left atrium can cause elevated filling pressure with resultant bilateral or symmetric pulmonary edema. To our knowledge, however, a case of localized pulmonary edema associated with cardiac myxoma has not previously been reported in the literature. We present a case of localized pulmonary edema in the right upper lobe associated with left atrial myxoma.
Chong
Semin
S
Department of Radiology, Chung-Ang University Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.
Choi
Eun Jeong
EJ
Youn
Inyoung
I
Choe
Ju Won
JW
Choi
Jae Chol
JC
Seo
Jae Seung
JS
D000368:Aged; D001027:Aortography; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*