title: [Atrial myxom is a rare cause of peripheral embolus].
abstract: Two case stories of seemingly healthy individuals, a 45 year-old male and a 54 year-old woman, with acute lower extremity ischemia caused by cardiac myxomas. Both patients had a lower extremity amputated and a removal of myxomas by surgery. In patients presenting with acute ischemia of the lower extremity surgeons need to consider this rare, but important diagnosis; especially in middle-aged, otherwise healthy patients. Performing an ultrasound sonography of the heart is the best way to make a diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Ortopædkirurgisk Afdeling, Rigshospitalet, København Ø, Denmark. tobiasaasvang@yahoo.dk
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kvanner Aasvang
authors.forename: Marianne Vestergård
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Lind
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed