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Ann Thorac Surg 1998;65:1833-1834
© 1998 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Mitral Valve Myxoma

Hiroshi Izumoto, MDa, Junya Kamata, MDa, Kohei Kawazoe, MDa

a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Iwate Medical University Memorial Heart Center, Iwate Medical University, 1-2-1 Chuodori, Morioka, Iwate 020, Japan

To the Editor

We read with great interest the article on the mitral valve myxoma beautifully reported by Murphy and associates [1]. We agree totally with them that the treatment is surgical excision, which may end up with mitral valve repair or replacement. In their report, they also stated that a review of the literature written in English revealed 7 cases of mitral valve myxomas diagnosed during life. However, we believe this statement is not correct. In their current review in The Annals on mitral valve myxoma, Chakfe and associates [2] tabulated 21 cases of myxomas of the mitral valve. Some of 21 case reports were not written in English. At least, Murphy and associates overlooked our case report of mitral valve myxoma [3].

In our case, the tumor was successfully excised and the mitral valve was repaired. We have been following up the patient periodically with echocardiography as suggested by Murphy and associates, and there has been no sign of recurrence.

Although the exact number of case reports on a specific issue may not be very important, we would like to call attention to the number of reported cases of mitral valve myxoma in the literature. At any rate, we agree with Murphy and associates that myxoma of the mitral valve is an exceedingly rare lesion, as we reported elsewhere [4]. We thank them for calling to our attention this very rare but challenging problem.

References

  1. Murphy D.P., Glazier D.B., Krause T.J. Mitral valve myxoma. Ann Thorac Surg 1997;64:1169-1170.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
  2. Chakfe N., Kretz J.G., Valentin P., et al. Clinical presentation and treatment options for mitral valve myxoma. Ann Thorac Surg 1997;64:872-877.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
  3. Kamata J., Yoshioka K., Nasu M., et al. Myxoma of the mitral valve detected by echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging. Eur Heart J 1995;16:1435-1438.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
  4. Kamata J., Izumoto H., Kawazoe K. Tumeurs de la valve mitrale. L’information Cardiologique 1996;20:287-292.




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