April 2023 Medical Image of the Month: Atrial Myxoma in the setting of Raynaud’s Phenomenon: Early Echocardiography and Management of Thrombotic Disease

Abstract

No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. A 43-year-old woman presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with right-sided weakness and numbness for several hours. Medical history is significant for Raynaud’s Phenomenon (RP), initially presenting six months prior to presentation, manifesting as intermittent episodes of painless discoloration of multiple fingers. Cardiac exam was unremarkable with regular rhythm and no discernable murmur. Neurological exam demonstrated right arm pronator drift. Other examination findings were unremarkable. Labs demonstrated a troponin of 0.00 ng/mL, C-reactive protein of 2.28 mg/dL, and an erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 40 mm/hr. The electrocardiogram (ECG) demonstrated sinus bradycardia and notable for T-wave inversion in lead III and aVF, but without any ST-segment deviations (Figure 1). Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI) of the brain demonstrated acute ischemic left frontal, left parietal, and right parietal infarcts along with mild subcortical left parietal infarct, concerning for venous or watershed distal embolic arterial infarct. MRI Angiogram of the brain showing diminutive bilateral …

Keywords

• myxoma
• left atrial myxoma
• echocardiography
• echocardiogram
• ultrasound
• thrombosis
• transthoracic echocardiogram
• raynaud's
• raynaud's phenomenon
• treatment