Author(s)

Musa Mohammed Baba^1*, Mohammed Abdullahi Talle², Faruk Buba², Kabir M. Fagge³

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Federal Medical Centre Nguru, Nguru, Nigeria.
²Department of Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria.
³Ma’aji Amar Muhammad Hospital Limited, Hadejia, Nigeria.

Myxoma is a benign and the most frequent tumor of the heart, accounting for approximately 30% of all primary cardiac tumors. Seventy five percent of atrial myxomas are in the left atrium. We present a case of a 20-year-old house wife presenting with biventricular heart failure and chest infection five months after her last child birth. Transthoracic echocardiography showed a mobile left atrial echogenic mass measuring 4.6 × 4.0 cm attached to the interatrial septum. Left ventricular systolic function was mildly reduced (EF 48%) with mitral and tricuspid incompetence. A diagnosis of left atrial myxoma with biventricular heart failure with chest infection was made. She improved on antibiotics and treatment of heart failure, and referred to Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital for further management.

Myxoma, Left Atrium, Postpartum Heart Failure

Baba, M. , Talle, M. , Buba, F. and Fagge, K. (2018) Left Atrial Myxoma in a Woman with Postpartum Heart Failure: The Culprit or an Incidental Bystander. Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 7, 63-69. doi: 10.4236/crcm.2018.71006.