Acute pulmonary edema in a patient with left atrial mass. What can we expect to find in a transthoracic cardiac echography?

Abstract

Primary cardiac tumors are a rare entity. Much more common are tumor metastases: breast, lung, soft tissue sarcomas, melanoma, leukemia and lymphomas. 75% of these are of benign lineage and, among them, the atrial myxoma is the most common, presenting around 50%, with greater prevalence in women aged 13 to 80 years. They are located in the left atrium in three quarters of the time. Its symptoms are varied, from asymptomatic patients to those who have had embolism, syncope, arrhythmia, heart failure, asthenia or anorexia among others.

We present the clinical case of a patient who undergoes surgery of the left atrial myxoma and the anesthetic management necessary to address this surgery.