title: An interleukin-6 secreting myxoma in a hypertrophic left ventricle.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Murata
mesh_terms: 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*
chemical_list: D015850:Interleukin-6