Surgical treatment in a rare coexistence of rheumatic mitral stenosis and left atrial myxoma: a case report

The most frequent benign cardiac tumor is a cardiac myxoma with its favorite location in left atrium. The disease has no specific symptoms and requires paraclinical diagnostic methods. We report a rare case of the left atrial myxoma with dynamic mitral valve obstruction symptoms associated with rheumatic mitral stenosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. There are difficulties with interpretation of the case due to similarity of clinical presentation the diseases.