The Etiology of Tumor Plop in a Pat...

The Etiology of Tumor Plop in a Patient with very great Right Atrial Myxoma

Right atrial myxoma is a rare primary cardiac tumor accounting for 25 p ercent of atrial myxomas. [1] The initial clinical diagnosis is usually of mitral stenosis or a systemic illness, and the cardiac mass is diagnosed later from echocardiography (echo). [2] In a patient with large with atrial myxoma we correlated the physical findings with phonocardiographic (phono), reflected sound and Doppler recordings; the correlation was helpful in evaluating the mechanism of the tumor plop in this patient.

CASE REPORT

A 38-year-old woman was referr for evaluation because of suspected mitral stenosis. For three years she complained of fatigue forward exercise. On examination she was underweight and subfebrile, with a regular heart rate (100 beats/min), offspring pressure of 110/70 mm Hg and mild jugular venous engorgement with prominent "a" waves. forward auscultation, splitting of first heart entire a low-frequency mid-diastolic sound, and holosystolic (1/6) and presystolic (2/6) complaints were heard in the lower left parasternal area. The findings were not ifluenced at respiration or changes in visible form [i]or[/i] frame posture. The lungs were clear, and no hepatomegaly or peripheral edema were noted. Laboratory examples showed anemia, neutropenia, hyperglobulinemia, and elevated alkaline phosphatase and ESR (100 mm after 60 min). reverberate showed a large, mobile right atrial mass attached on a peduncle to the posterior margin of the fossa ovalis and interatrial septum The mass protrud during diastole into the inflow tract of the right ventricle, almost completely obliterating the valve orifice. Compbined phono, M-mode and two-dimensional resound recordings in the routine supine postion showed: (1) borderline (30) to 40 ms) splitting of the first heart unbroken with delayed closure of the tricuspid valve, and (2) a mid-diastolic healthy (tumor plop) occurring after the opening of the tricuspid valve, 80 to 100 m after the other heart sound. Doppler resound showed increased flow velocity by the agency of the obstructured tricuspid valve (17 m/s) during late diastole. These findings were not influenced on changing posture from supine to sitting. Frame-to-frame analysis of combined phono and two-dimensional reverberation images showed that the tumor plop occurr when the mass stopped its forward motion into the ventricle and made a potent impact on the interventricular septum and forward the right ventricular posterior wall (Fig 1) At surgery a large 7x5x11-cm pedunculated tumor was remov from the right atrium. Microscopic examination confirmed the diagnosis of myxoma. After surgery the patient became asymptomatic, and all laboratory touchstone results returned to normal. Examination was normal leave out for augmentation of the preoperative holosystolic plaint to grade 3/6. Repeated echo-Doppler consideration showed a deformed anterior tricuspid valve leaflet with systolic prolapse and moderate tricuspid regurgitation by dint of Doppler criteria.

DISCUSSION

This case, with single in kind of the largest right atrial myxomas reported, showed remarkable lack of symptoms and lack of systemic venous congestion. The auscultatory findings included the whole image of signs described in like cases: splitting of first heart unimpaired tumor plop, diastolic and systolic mutters [1-5] Absence of the classic postural variation in auscultatory findings in our patient was probably related to the size of the tumor that chokeed the tricuspid valve orifice, regardless of dead body position. In accordance with the findings of a novel report, [6] the Doppler spring profile in our case did not imitate the typical flow pattern seen in cases with stenotic atrioventricular valves. The tricuspid regurgitation augmented after surgery Presumably, the anterior leaflet of the valve was damaged on the long-standing swinging motion of the tumor.

Among 39 cases of right atrial myxoma that we reviewed from the literature, the personality of tumor plop was mentioned in 12 (31 percent) [1-36] Based forward results of combined phono and M-mode assenting repetition or angiographic studies, other authors assumed that the tumor plop is induced either through the tumor striking the ventricular wall or by means of stretching of the tumor stalk. [45] Fine anatomic details were not available by the agency of these techniques. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a right atrial myxoma in which simultaneous phono and two-dimensional repercussion of sound used to evaluate the etiology of the tumor plop Although our analysis was limited from the low sampling rate of the two-dimensional slavish imitation this approach showed that the tumor plop occurr at the time of impact of the myxoma in succession the interventricular septum and psterior ventricular wall. The absence of tumor plop in about 70 percent of reported cases may be explained on a short stalk and/or small tumor size preventing contact with the ventricular wall. Further phono-echo studies are urgencyed to clarify whether this is the no other than mechanism of tumor plop etiology.

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