Abstract
The case report describes a fifty-two-year-old high-risk patient, a smoker, with arterial hypertension, mixed hyperlipidemia, and a significant family burden of ischemic heart disease. The patient was hospitalized at the Neurological Clinic for a transient ischemic stroke with hemihypesthesia, with bilateral central vision disorder, without motor deficit.
On CT examination without focal changes. On the subsequent echocardiographic examination, a hypermobile lobular formation was found in the left atrium, attached to the basal part of the atrial septum.
The patient was indicated for cardiac surgery. The entity has been removed.
Histology confirmed the clinical diagnosis of myxoma.