CARDIAC tumors have long been of interest and have been the subject of extensive review articles. 1–8 Most of these tumors are secondary, however, and the cardiac problem is superimposed on primary ...

We diagnosed infective endocarditis related to her pre-existing cardiac myxoma and started antibiotic treatment of intravenous ampicillin (200 mg/kg/d in 4 doses) and gentamicin (3 mg/kg/d in 1 dose).

Cardiac myxoma is a source of emboli to the central nervous system and elsewhere in the vascular tree. However, nonspecific systemic symptoms and minor embolic phenomena may be overlooked in the ...

S.G., a 41-year-old woman, began to experience transient episodes of difficulty with speech, memory and temperament, as well as numbness and tingling of the right hand and occasional left-sided ...