CEREBRAL COMPLICATIONS IN HEART MYXOMAS

Citation
Lr. Zenkov et al., CEREBRAL COMPLICATIONS IN HEART MYXOMAS, Zurnal nevropatologii i psihiatrii im. S.S. Korsakova, 93(1), 1993, pp. 74-78
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Pathology,Neurosciences
ISSN journal
00444588
Volume
93
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
74 - 78
Database
ISI
SICI code
0044-4588(1993)93:1<74:CCIHM>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
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.