title: [Surgical treatment of primary cardiac tumors].
abstract: Twenty patients with primary cardiac tumors were operated on during the past ten years. The age of 15 female and 5 male patients ranged from 17 to 73 years. Eighteen patients had myxomas, 16 of which located in the left atrium and 2 in the right atrium. Systemic embolism occurred in 8 patients, subsequently caused cerebral infarction in 4, ischemia of extremities in 2, myocardial infarction in 1 and pulmonary infarction in 1. Emergency operation was performed in 5 patients because of severe congestive heart failure. In all cases, removal of myxoma was performed together with the excision of the wall to which the pedicle attached with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass. One patient with pulmonary infarction underwent resection of the infarcted lung simultaneously. Only one patient with severe heart failure died of pulmonary insufficiency one month after the operation. Another patient with cerebral infarction underwent clipping of cerebral aneurysm which appeared later in the infarcted area. The 17 patients including the latter patient showed a good recovery and no local recurrence during the follow-up period of 1 to 120 months. Two patients had malignant tumors, which were malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the left atrium and leiomyosarcoma of the pulmonary artery, respectively. Both of these rare tumors were resected noncuratively and led to the death because of their local recurrence with distant metastasis, though they received adjuvant chemotherapy. The symptoms, complications, diagnoses, surgical treatment and outcome of the primary cardiac tumors are reviewed in this study.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hyogo Brain and Heart Center, Himeji, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Asada
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mukohara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishiwaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Higami
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawamura
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery