title: Left atrial myxoma in a patient with a biventricular pacemaker.
abstract: Myxomas make up about 50% of benign cardiac neoplasms. The most common location is within the left atrium. At the initial stage they do not exhibit any specific clinical symptoms, so they are often diagnosed by accident or during examinations recommended for other reasons. Here we present a case of left atrium myxoma in a patient (a man, age 68 years) with a dual chamber pacemaker. The myxoma did not reveal any clinical symptoms and was discovered in echocardiography during routine diagnostic examination preceding pacemaker implantation. The literature search made by the authors showed that this is the first recorded case of myxoma in a patient after the implantation of a biventricular pacemaker.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Cardiology in Zabrze, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Brygida
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Przywara-Chowaniec
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Cardiology in Zabrze, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Łukasz
authors.initials: Ł
authors.lastname: Czarnecki
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Cardiology in Zabrze, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nowalny-Kozielska
authors.affiliation: Foundation for Cardiac Surgery Development, Zabrze, Poland.
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gawlikowski
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Cardiology in Zabrze, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Mariusz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Opara
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Cardiology in Zabrze, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Agata
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Puzio
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Cardiology in Zabrze, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Damian
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kawecki
authors.affiliation: First Department of Cardiology in Zabrze, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Bartosz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wesołowski
keywords: Carney’s syndrome; biventricular pacemaker; echocardiography; myxoma