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https://doi.org/10.14300/mnnc.2025.20061

Clinical diagnostics of benign cardiac tumors

[Lecture. Clinical decisions support]
Evgenia Leonidovna Trisvetova;

The development of many intracardiac pathological formations is asymptomatic. Detection by imaging methods, often accidental, determines further differentiation by clinical symptoms, family history, characteristics of intracardiac formations, correlation with normal cardiac structures and sometimes by the results of histological methods. The symptomatic course of pathological formations is often determined by their position and size: with large sizes, prolapse into the cardiac chamber and obstruction of blood flow, decreased contractile function of the myocardium and development of heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia, thromboembolic syndrome or systemic nonspecific manifestations that imitate the clinical picture of other diseases occur. Recognition of pathological formations is based on age and gender determination, family history, concomitant clinical signs of genetic syndromes and multimodal imaging.

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Keywords: benign cardiac tumors, myxoma, papillary fibroelastoma, rhabdomyoma, lipoma, cardiac thrombus, diagnostics