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Ann Thorac Surg 1980;29:397-405
© 1980 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Cardiac Myxoma

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Hospital, Baltimore, MD

^* Address reprint requests to Dr. Attar, University of Maryland Hospital, 22 S Greene St, Baltimore, MD 21201

Ten patients with cardiac myxoma were reviewed. They ranged from 23 months to 60 years old. Echocardiography was the most helpful noninvasive diagnostic technique. The tumor was demonstrated by angiocardiography, left atrial myxomas frequently migrating to the left ventricle in diastole. Hemodynamically, left atrial myxomas were associated with moderately severe pulmonary hypertension and simulated mitral stenosis or insufficiency and right atrial myxomas, with right atrial hypertension. There were 7 myxomas in the left atrium, 2 in the right atrium, and 1 in the right ventricle.

Eight patients underwent open-heart operation with removal of the myxoma, 1 had concomitant tricuspid valve replacement, and 1 had biopsy of the right ventricle only. The other patient was a Jehovah's Witness and refused operation. One patient died of cardiac arrest intraoperatively, and another died of a bilateral cerebral infarct. One patient had recurrence requiring reoperation. Postoperative hemodynamic and clinical improvement was more striking in patients with a left atrial myxoma presumably due to a normal mitral valve in contradistinction to the tricuspid valve.

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