Growth rate of left atrial myxoma. Development of a symptomatic left atrial myxoma less than two years after coronary artery bypass grafting.
In April 1984, a left atrial myxoma almost filling the left ventricle was discovered in a patient who had no evidence of myxoma at the time of aortocoronary bypass grafting in September 1982. We conclude that the growth rate of a primary cardiac myxoma may be much faster than expected from previous observations.
D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D004452:Echocardiography; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013997:Time Factors