Volume 26, Issue 129, November 2022

Large mitral valve vegetation in a 59 year old patient that was thought to be atrial myxoma: A case report

Osama Abdullah Abdulrahman^1♦, Fawaz Saeed Baalaraj¹, Saad Fardan Alqahtani¹, Mohammad Hani Baharith¹, Dyaa Esam Habeeb¹, Abdulhalim S Serafi²

¹Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
²Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

The detection of masses is prevalent in heart diagnostic techniques including echocardiography and cardiac imaging. The most frequent masses are tumor, vegetation and thrombus, which are easily confused with each other because the characteristics of the mass can vary depending on regional location, mass morphology and clinical syndrome. Surgical and histopathological interventions are required for a conclusive diagnosis. Infectious endocarditis (IE) is a bacterial infection of the endocardium that can affect a heart valve or an implanted cardiac device. It is linked to vegetation that can be found on heart valves or any implant devices, as was the case in our patient and it can spread through the vegetation of various sizes.

Keywords: Infective endocarditis, Vegetation, atrial myxoma, Mitral valve.

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms463e2355

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i129/ms463e2355

Published: 14 November 2022