RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Stroke due to a cardiac myxoma
JF BMJ Case Reports
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP bcr0920080875
DO 10.1136/bcr.09.2008.0875
VO 2009
A1 Rustam Al-Shahi Salman
A1 David Northridge
A1 Alastair N J Graham
A1 Robin Grant
YR 2009
UL http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2009/bcr.09.2008.0875.abstract
AB Cardioembolic stroke is an important cause of stroke in young people. Cardioembolism classically causes infarcts in multiple vascular territories. In the case described here a young woman developed cardioembolic stroke secondary to atrial myxoma. The presentation was atypical in that the woman had no systemic manifestations of her myxoma.