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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq Bras Cardiol</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id" specific-use="scielo-v3">VP5GMWSmZTQszh7pJrVDJCG</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id" specific-use="scielo-v2">S0066-782X2015002000097</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5935/abc.20150064</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Case Report</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Multidetector Computed Tomographic Characterization of a Left Atrial Myxoma</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Marciniak</surname>
            <given-names>Anna</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff01"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rajani</surname>
            <given-names>Ronak</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff01"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c01"/>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff01">
        <institution content-type="orgname">Guys and St Thomas Hospital</institution>
        <addr-line>
          <named-content content-type="city">London</named-content>
        </addr-line>
        <country country="GB">United Kingdom</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Guys and St Thomas Hospital, London - United Kingdom</institution>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c01"><bold>Mailing Address: Ronak Rajani</bold> Department of Cardiology, Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, SE1 7EH, London - United Kingdom Email:   <email>ronak.rajani@gstt.nhs.uk</email>,   <email>dr.r.rajani@gmail.com</email>
				</corresp>
        <fn fn-type="con">
          <label>Author contributions</label>
          <p>Conception and design of the research:Marciniak A, Rajani R. Acquisition of data: Rajani R. Writing of the manuscript:Marciniak A, Rajani R. Supervision / as the major investigador: Rajani R.</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="conflict">
          <label>Potential Conflict of Interest</label>
          <p>No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub-ppub">
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2015</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>105</volume>
      <issue>01</issue>
      <fpage>97</fpage>
      <lpage>98</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>09</day>
          <month>03</month>
          <year>2015</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>23</day>
          <month>03</month>
          <year>2015</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>01</day>
          <month>04</month>
          <year>2015</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">
          <license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="en">
        <title>Keywords:</title>
        <kwd>Cardiac Surgical Procedures</kwd>
        <kwd>Myxoma, Heart Atria/ physiopathology</kwd>
        <kwd>Multidetector Computed Tomography</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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    <p>A 57-year-old woman presented to her local hospital with left arm and leg weakness and was diagnosed with a right-sided stroke. A subsequent transthoracic echocardiogram showed a large, poorly-defined mass within the left atrium, which prompted her transfer to our institute for urgent surgical resection.</p>
    <p>As a prelude to surgery, we performed a "tripartite" coronary CT angiogram to assess the coronary anatomy and left atrial mass (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01">Figure 1</xref>). The findings were consistent with a left atrial myxoma and the patient subsequently underwent surgery, where the mass was resected and the diagnosis substantiated (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f02">Figure 2</xref>).</p>
    <fig id="f01">
      <label>Figure 1</label>
      <caption>
        <title>ECG-gated cardiac computed tomography. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01">Figure 1a</xref> shows a large mass (arrow) occupying one third of the left atrium in systole (40% phase). <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01">Figure 1b</xref> shows the mass (arrow) prolapsing through the mitral valve into the left ventricle in diastole (90% phase). On first pass perfusion (FPP) imaging (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01">Figure 1c</xref>) the mass was shown to be hypoattenuated (52 HU) when compared to the myocardium (140 HU) indicating reduced vascularity. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01">Figure 1d</xref> shows a lack of delayed enhancement (DE) on an interval scan performed 7 minutes later in keeping with the benign nature of the myxoma.</title>
      </caption>
      <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-105-01-0097-50064-gf01.jpg"/></fig>
    <fig id="f02">
      <label>Figure 2</label>
      <caption>
        <title>Macroscopic appearance of the left atrial myxoma following surgical resection.   <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01">Figure 1a</xref> shows the ventricular surface of the myxoma along with the atrial septum and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01">Figure 1b</xref> the ventricular surface.</title>
      </caption>
      <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-105-01-0097-50064-gf02.jpg"/></fig>
    <p>Myxomas have an estimated incidence of 0.007%. Although echocardiography remains the first-line investigation to establish their diagnosis, the current case highlights the typical appearances and usefulness of CT as a second-line investigation when further information is required.</p>
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      <fn fn-type="supported-by">
        <label>Sources of Funding</label>
        <p>There were no external funding sources for this study.</p>
      </fn>
      <fn fn-type="other">
        <label>Study Association</label>
        <p>This study is not associated with any thesis or dissertation work.</p>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Caracteriza&#231;&#227;o de um Mixoma Atrial Esquerdo por Tomografia Computadorizada de M&#250;ltiplos Detectores</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Marciniak</surname>
            <given-names>Anna</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff02"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rajani</surname>
            <given-names>Ronak</given-names>
          </name>
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          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c02"/>
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        <aff id="aff02">
          <institution content-type="original">Guys and St Thomas Hospital, Londres - Reino Unido</institution>
        </aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c02"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Ronak Rajani</bold>, Department of Cardiology, Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, SE1 7EH, London - United Kingdom. Email:   <email>ronak.rajani@gstt.nhs.uk</email>,   <email>dr.r.rajani@gmail.com</email></corresp>
        <fn fn-type="con">
          <label>Contribui&#231;&#227;o dos autores</label>
          <p>Concep&#231;&#227;o e desenho da pesquisa: Marciniak A, Rajani R. Obten&#231;&#227;o de dados: Rajani R. Reda&#231;&#227;o do manuscrito: Marciniak A, Rajani R. Supervis&#227;o / como investigador principal: Rajani R.</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="conflict">
          <label>Potencial conflito de interesse</label>
          <p>Declaro n&#227;o haver conflito de interesses pertinentes.</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="pt">
        <title>Palavras-chave:</title>
        <kwd>Procedimentos Cir&#250;rgicos Card&#237;acos</kwd>
        <kwd>Mixoma</kwd>
        <kwd>&#193;trios do Cora&#231;&#227;o/fisiopatologia</kwd>
        <kwd>Tomografia Computadorizada Multidetectores</kwd>
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      <p>Uma mulher de 57 anos de idade se apresentou ao hospital local com fraqueza no bra&#231;o esquerdo e na perna esquerda, e recebeu diagn&#243;stico de acidente vascular cerebral do lado direito. O ecocardiograma transtor&#225;cico subseq&#252;ente mostrou uma grande massa, mal definida, dentro do &#225;trio esquerdo, o que ocasionou a sua transfer&#234;ncia para o nosso instituto para ressec&#231;&#227;o cir&#250;rgica de urg&#234;ncia.</p>
      <p>Antes da cirurgia, foi realizada uma angiotomografia coron&#225;ria "tripartida" para avaliar a anatomia coronariana e a massa atrial esquerda (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f03">Figura 1</xref>). Os resultados foram consistentes com um mixoma atrial esquerdo e, posteriormente, a paciente foi submetida &#224; cirurgia, onde a massa foi ressecada e o diagn&#243;stico validado (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f04">Figura 2</xref>).</p>
      <fig id="f03">
        <label>Figura 1</label>
        <caption>
          <title>Tomografia computadorizada card&#237;aca ECG-gated. <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f03">Figura 1a</xref> mostra uma grande massa (seta) ocupando um ter&#231;o do &#225;trio esquerdo na s&#237;stole (40% fase). <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f03">Figura 1b</xref> mostra a massa (seta) em prolapso atrav&#233;s da v&#225;lvula mitral para o ventr&#237;culo esquerdo na di&#225;stole (90% fase). Na imagem da perfus&#227;o de primeira passagem (PPP) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f03">Figura 1c</xref>), a massa estava hipoatenuada (52 HU) quando comparada com o mioc&#225;rdio (140 HU), indicando vascularidade reduzida. A <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f03">Figura 1d</xref> mostra falta de realce tardio (RT) em uma varredura de intervalo realizada sete minutos mais tarde, consistente com a natureza benigna do mixoma.</title>
        </caption>
        <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-105-01-0097-50064-gf01-pt.jpg"/></fig>
      <fig id="f04">
        <label>Figura 2</label>
        <caption>
          <title>Apar&#234;ncia macrosc&#243;pica do mixoma atrial esquerdo ap&#243;s ressec&#231;&#227;o cir&#250;rgica.   <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f03">Figura 1a</xref> mostra a superf&#237;cie ventricular do mixoma, juntamente com o septo interatrial e a <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f03">Figura 1b</xref> a superf&#237;cie ventricular.</title>
        </caption>
        <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-105-01-0097-50064-gf02-pt.jpg"/></fig>
      <p>Os mixomas t&#234;m uma incid&#234;ncia estimada de 0,007%. Embora a ecocardiografia permane&#231;a como a primeira linha de investiga&#231;&#227;o para estabelecer seu diagn&#243;stico, o caso atual destaca as caracter&#237;sticas t&#237;picas e a utilidade da TC como uma segunda linha de investiga&#231;&#227;o, quando informa&#231;&#245;es complementares s&#227;o necess&#225;rias.</p>
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          <label>Fontes de financiamento</label>
          <p>O presente estudo n&#227;o teve fontes de financiamento externas.</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="other">
          <label>Vincula&#231;&#227;o acad&#234;mica</label>
          <p>N&#227;o h&#225; vincula&#231;&#227;o deste estudo a programas de p&#243;s&#8209;gradua&#231;&#227;o.</p>
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