Asymptomatic Patient with an Uncommonly Located Myxoma in the Left Ventricle Attached to Chordae Tendinae

Jonathan Francois¹, Eric Kupferstein¹, Rishard Abdul¹, Joseph Casillas¹, Ishmam Ibtida¹, Moro Salifu¹ and Samy I. McFarlane^1,

¹Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine. SUNY Downstate- Health Science University, Brooklyn, New York, United States- 11203

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Jonathan Francois, Eric Kupferstein, Rishard Abdul, Joseph Casillas, Ishmam Ibtida, Moro Salifu and Samy I. McFarlane. Asymptomatic Patient with an Uncommonly Located Myxoma in the Left Ventricle Attached to Chordae Tendinae. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2020; 8(9):313-314. doi: 10.12691/AJMCR-8-9-14

Abstract

Cardiac tumors are rare disorders with an incidence of <0.33%. Primary cardiac tumors are extremely rare with an incidence between 0.0017% and 0.19%. Nearly 75% of cardiac tumors are benign with atrial myxomas representing nearly 50%. The majority of cardiac myxomas (75%) are located in the left atrium, 23% in right atrium and 2% in the ventricular cavity. This report presents a rare case of an asymptomatic patient with a left ventricular myxoma attached to the chordae tendinae of the mitral valve.

Keywords

myxoma, left ventricle, cardiac tumor, chordae tendinae

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