Cardioembolic stroke.

Abstract

gram revealed a large, partially mobile, multilobed echodensity in the left atrium which was attached to the anterior mitral valve leafl et consistent with atrial myxoma (Figure 1), with no hemodynamic signifi cance. Surgical resection of atrial tumor was performed once stable from a neurologic perspective and the risk of hemorrhagic conversion and extension of her stroke was considered low. Patient underwent uneventful removal of the left atrial myxoma (confi rmed on pathology, Figure 2). Six months later the patient remains in good condition without residual neurologic defi cits.