title: [Ischemic strokes related to benign primitive cardiac tumours].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  We report three cases of ischemic cardioembolic strokes related to benign primary cardiac tumours (two fibromas and one fibroelastoma).
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a retrospective study over a five years period (from December 2004 to December 2009) in a French community hospital. Data on hospital strokes were obtained from the informatics department. Three benign primary cardiac tumours were found as the cause of acute neurological manifestations: a 45-year-old woman with a fibroelastoma revealed by a brain infarction, a 29-year-old man with a myxoma revealed by a transient ischemic attack, and a 46-year-old woman with a myxoma revealed by a brain infarction. Rankin scores performed at least 18 months after cardiac tumour surgery were respectively of 0, 0 and 2.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our study confirms that this is a rare event even if those tumours seem to have a high embolic potential (myxomas). Anyway, long-term functional outcome seems to be good.
authors.affiliation: Service de neurologie, centre hospitalier François-Mitterrand, 4, boulevard Hauterive, 64046 Pau cedex, France.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Durand de Grossouvre
authors.forename: J-F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Rivière
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bertandeau
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bonnan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dakar
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Krim
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Barroso
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology*