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Left Atrial Myxoma Causing Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction

Departments of Medicine, Surgery, and Radiology, and the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

James Karo, M.D.

Departments of Medicine, Surgery, and Radiology, and the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

Pedro Diaz, M.D.

Departments of Medicine, Surgery, and Radiology, and the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

Sidney Goldstein, M.D.

Departments of Medicine, Surgery, and Radiology, and the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

Paul D. Stein, M.D.

Henry Ford Hospital 2799 West Grand Boulevard Detroit, Michigan 48202

Echocardiography showed that a patient with left atrial myxoma had intermittent ob struction of the left ventricular outflow tract. Obstruction was caused either by the tumor itself or by displacement of the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve into the outflow tract. Outflow tract obstruction, in con tradistinction to inflow tract obstruction, may be a cause of syncope and sudden death in left atrial myxoma.

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vol. 13, No. 2, 111-114 (1979)
DOI: 10.1177/153857447901300206


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