An interleukin-6 secreting myxoma in a hypertrophic left ventricle.
We describe a patient who had both a left ventricular myxoma and left ventricular hypertrophy; the myxoma was subsequently excised and revealed to produce interleukin-6. The combination of left ventricular myxoma and ventricular hypertrophy is uncommon. Interleukin-6 secreted from the myxoma may be an important factor in the pathogenesis of ventricular hypertrophy in this patient.
Kanda
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Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan.
Nakajima
T
T
Sakamoto
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Suzuki
T
T
Murata
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K
D000368:Aged; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000209:etiology*; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism*
D015850:Interleukin-6