[Surgical treatment of a right atrial myxoma with pulmonary embolism].
We report on an 18-year-old man with a right atrial myxoma complicated by widespread pulmonary infarction. Under cardiopulmonary bypass, a typical gelatin-like myxoma of 65 g in weight and the segments of pulmonary infarction were simultaneously removed. From the excised lung specimens, pulmonary tissue infarction caused by myxoma acting as a blocker was recognized. This was a very rare case of myxoma complicated by pulmonary infarction, and we report here the successful removal of the right myxoma and partial pneumonectomy.
Nakao
M
M
Matsuda
H
H
Nohara
H
H
Higami
T
T
Mukohara
N
N
Asada
T
T
Ogawa
K
K
D000293:Adolescent; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*