When a 67‑year‑old woman was rushed to hospital with chest pain and signs of a heart attack, doctors initially treated her for a routine cardiac emergency. But what they found next—a rare tumor growing inside her heart—would reveal an unusual and potentially dangerous diagnosis that is frequently overlooked.
Doctors were able to diagnose and operate on an atrial myxoma, which is a benign heart tumor that most commonly grows in the left atrium, one of the the heart’s upper chambers.
Woman Goes to ER With Chest Pain-Then Doctors Find What’s Inside Her Heart
