Cardiac myxoma and concomitant myocardial infarction. Embolism, atherosclerosis or combination?

Primary heart tumors are uncommon with a reported incidence ranging from 0.0017% to 0.19% in the general population [ [1] Reynen K. Medical progress: cardiac myxomas. N. Engl. J. Med. 1995; 333: 1610-1617 Crossref PubMed Scopus (1107) Google Scholar ]. Among them, atrial myxomas are the most frequently encountered tumors accounting for 30–50% of cardiac masses [ 1 Reynen K. Medical progress: cardiac myxomas. N. Engl. J. Med. 1995; 333: 1610-1617 Crossref PubMed Scopus (1107) Google Scholar , 2 Grande A. Ragni T. Vigano M. Primary cardiac tumors. A clinical experience of 12 years. Tex. Heart Inst. J. 1993; 20: 223-230 PubMed Google Scholar ].