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Myocardial Infarction as an Alert to the Presence of Left Atrial Myxoma Albouaini, Khaled; Boghossian, Shahe & Alkarmi, Amr Abstract Cardiac Myxomas constitute more than half of the benign cardiac tumours. Embolic events occur in 30 percent of cardiac myxomas. In this report we present a case where an echocardiography was a pivotal tool in the diagnosis of a probable cardiac embolic source in a patient who presented with acute myocardial infarction and failed to reperfuse after thrombolysis. Keywords Cardiac tumours, myxoma, coronary embolization

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