Research Article

Brain Embolism Secondary to Cardiac Myxoma in Fifteen Chinese Patients

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A patient presented with NMO-like attack. A 34-year-old woman with bilateral impaired vision, double vision, quadriplegia, dysuria, and internuclear ophthalmoplegia had normal brain CT results on 14 October 2012. Brain MRI showed multiple new lesions in brain. (a) MRI revealed abnormalities beside the third ventricle. (b) MRI revealed lesions in the pons. (c) DSA revealed occlusion of the top of the basilar artery. (d) Echocardiography showed a highly mobile mass attached to the fossa ovalis of the left atrium (arrow).
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