A rare case of right ventricular myxoma causing recurrent stroke.

Prakash Aroor Sarvotham Rao, S N Nagendra Prakash,Somanath Vasudev, M Girish,Arun Srinivas,H P Guru Prasad, P Jayakumar,Venu Gopal Anandaswamy

Indian Heart Journal(2016)

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Abstract
We present a 62-year-old lady admitted in our hospital with two episodes of acute ischemic stroke about 2 weeks apart. She was evaluated for acute ischemic stroke and was thrombolysed for recent stroke in right MCA territory first time. On further evaluation, she was found to have a RVOT mass. A transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiogram revealed a PFO and a large, 5.1cm×2.3cm, ovoid, well circumscribed, echogenic mass in the right ventricle outflow tract attached by small pedicle to the ventricular side of anterior tricuspid leaflet, partly obstructing the right ventricular outflow tract and protruding through the pulmonic valve during systole. She was scheduled for surgery (right ventricular mass excision and PFO closure) after 3 weeks due to the risk of secondary hemorrhage in the infarcted area following thrombolysis and anticoagulation and so was discharged with medications after full neurologic recovery after about a week of hospital stay.
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RV,RVOT,TIA,MCA,MRI,HPE,PFO
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