A Case Report of a Large Left Atrial Myxoma with Unusual Attachment and Simultaneous Embolization to the Brain

Introduction: Cardiac myxomas are the most common primary tumors of the heart with high embolic potential. Case Presentation: We present a young man with progressing stroke and atrial myxoma in an unusual site from the left upper pulmonary vein. Conclusions: Intravenous (IV) thrombolysis can be safe in patients with intracardiac myxoma and CNS embolization after good case selection. However, further studies are needed for better decision-making.

Atypical clinical presentation in an anterior cerebral artery territory infarction

Infarction of the anterior cerebral artery (ACA) territory accounts for only 0.3-4.4% of cerebral infarctions. We report an unusually prolonged progressing stroke of the ACA in a 58-yearold patient who had his diagnosis based on neuroimaging investigation and in anatomopathological exclusion of neoplastic disorder.