04.30 - Cardiac Tumors (Nichols)

Question 1

Benign gelatinous mesenchymal neoplasms of endocardium

Answer 1

Cardiac Myxomas

Question 2

Children with aneurysms in coronary arteries

Answer 2

Kawasaki

Question 3

Demographic for Kawasaki

Answer 3

Children

Question 4

Demographic for Rhabdomyoma

Answer 4

children

Question 5

Describe histology of Cardiac Myxoma

Answer 5

Scattered stellate cells w/ scant cytoplasm in a bluish myxoid ground substance

Question 6

Diff b/t Spider Cells and Hibernating Cells is

Answer 6

Vacuoles in Spider Cells contains glycogen, Hibernating cells is nothing

Question 7

Dx of Cardiac Myxoma

Answer 7

Echo

Question 8

Scattered stellate cells w/ scant cytoplasm in a bluish myxoid ground substance

Answer 8

Histology of Cardiac Myxoma

Question 9

Signs of Cardiac Myxoma

Answer 9

Loud S1, Diastolic Rumble, Diastolic Tumor Plop, Holosystolic Murmur

Question 10

Spider Cells

Answer 10

Rhabdomyoma

Question 11

Tx of Cardiac Myxoma

Answer 11

Surgical excision (curative)

Question 12

What is relation between Myxoma and systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Answer 12

Tumor secretes IL-6

Question 13

Where do Cardiac Myxomas usually occur

Answer 13

Left Atrium