title: Intracranial aneurysm disappeared after resection of a cardiac myxoma.
abstract: A 67-year-old male was diagnosed as myxoma-related cerebral aneurysm. Transthoracic echocardiogram showed a large mass in the left atrium and pathological analysis confirmed the diagnosis of myxoma. Cerebral magnetic resonance angiography revealed an aneurysm in the right internal carotid artery. However, the aneurysm was disappeared amazingly after successful resection of cardiac mass. There are a few similar case reports in the literature. Our case report illustrates that cerebral aneurysms may be associated with cardiac myxomas and that closely follow-up cerebral aneurysms after resection of myxoma is necessary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Gannan Medical University Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Affliated Ganzhou Hospital, Nanchang University Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China.
authors.forename: Jianping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Gannan Medical University Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
keywords: Cardiac myxoma; case report; intracranial aneurysm