The advantages of live/real-time three-dimensional echocardiograhy in the assessment of left ventricular myxoma, which causes partial left ventricular outflow tract obstruction

J Clin Ultrasound. 2018 May;46(4):273-277. doi: 10.1002/jcu.22514. Epub 2017 Jun 27.

Abstract

Myxomas are the most common cardiac primary tumors; however, left ventricular myxomas are extremely rare. We describe a young female patient with a giant left ventricular myxoma causing partial obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract, who underwent successful surgical resection. Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography yielded incremental value to two-dimensional echocardiography by allowing better assess of the true size, extent, attachment, and morphology of the tumor. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound 46:273-277, 2018.

Keywords: cardiac MRI; left ventricular myxoma; three-dimensional echocardiography; two-dimensional echocardiography.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Computer Systems
  • Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional*
  • Female
  • Heart Neoplasms / complications
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Myxoma / complications
  • Myxoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / etiology*