Journal of Echocardiography

, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp 130–131 | Cite as

Primary benign myopericytoma of the left atrium

  • Tomás Francisco Cianciulli
  • Jorge Alberto Lax
  • María Cristina Saccheri
  • Juan Pablo Lestard
  • Martín Hernán Medawar
  • Andrea Zappi
  • Roberto Osvaldo Neme
Case image in cardiovascular ultrasound
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Keywords

Mitral Valve Left Atrial Cardiac Tumor Atrial Myxoma Myoid Cell 
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Notes

Compliance with ethical standards

Conflict of interest

Tomás Francisco Cianciulli, Jorge Alberto Lax, María Cristina Saccheri, Juan Pablo Lestard, Martín Hernán Medawar and Andrea Zappi declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Human rights statements and informed consent

All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later revisions. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.

Supplementary material

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Supplementary material 1 (DOCX 564 kb)

Video 1: Two-dimensional echocardiography in parasternal long-axis view shows the left atrial mass (WMV 291 kb)

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Video 2: Two-dimensional echocardiography in apical four-chamber view. Zoom in the left ventricular inflow tract shows the left atrial mass (WMV 1385 kb)
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Video 3: Two-dimensional echocardiography in parasternal long-axis view. Colour Doppler shows mild mitral regurgitation and turbulence in the left ventricle inflow tract due to the left atrial mass(WMV 254 kb)

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Copyright information

© Japanese Society of Echocardiography 2016

Authors and Affiliations

  • Tomás Francisco Cianciulli
    • 1
  • Jorge Alberto Lax
    • 1
  • María Cristina Saccheri
    • 1
  • Juan Pablo Lestard
    • 1
  • Martín Hernán Medawar
    • 1
  • Andrea Zappi
    • 2
  • Roberto Osvaldo Neme
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of CardiologyHospital of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires “Dr. Cosme Argerich”, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos AiresBuenos AiresArgentina
  2. 2.Department of PathologyHospital of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires “Dr. Cosme Argerich”, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos AiresBuenos AiresArgentina

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