CEREBRAL COMPLICATIONS IN HEART MYXOMAS

The authors analyze injuries to the central nervous system in patients with heart myxomas due to tumorous embolism of brain vessels with the development of acute or <<delayed>> cerebral symptomatology. Stress t he difficulty of correct interpretation of acute disorders of cerebral circulation with no other signs of intracavitary heart neoplasm and t he possibility of the asymptomatic form of cerebrovascular embolism or its consequences in association with a remarkable clinical picture of heart myxoma. Emphasis is laid on the necessity of carrying out all-r ound examination of the brain to reveal injuries that may occur under such conditions, to determine the prognosis and treatment policy in th e given patients' group, especially in the long-term period after rese ction of intracavitary heart neoplasm.