Clinical presentation of multiple cerebral emboli and central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) as signs of cardiac myxoma

Cardiac myxomas are benign tumors of endocardial origin that usually occur in the left atrium. Trans-thoracic echocardiography is the diagnostic method of choice, and early surgical removal is the preferred method of treatment.We present a patient whose history of cerebral emboli and central retinal...

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Main Authors: Alberto Galvez-Ruiz, Alicia Galindo-Ferreiro, Anthony J. Lehner, Igor Kozac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2018-04-01
Series:Saudi Journal of Ophthalmology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S131945341730111X