A 57 year Foreign National from Mozambique came to Lilavati hospital for the general body check up for her mildly swollen right leg & mild off & on Fever. Her total body check-up revealed no abnormalities except the cardiac Echo which showed 3.5 x 3.5 cm Globular Mass in left atrium attached to the inter-atrial septum in otherwise normal cardiac parameters. For differentiation, a cardiac MRI was done which suggested that this mass could be Myxoma like Tumor rather than the clot. In view of these findings, the patient was advised urgent open heart surgery for removal of this tumor from Left atrium chamber of the heart.
Open heart surgery was carried out on 19/05/2017. Tumor was removal through Trans -atrial approach from the right atrium. The tumor was 3.5 x 4.5 cm Globular hard mass attached to the left atrial side of interatrial septum with the broad base which was also removed.…
