[A case of angina pectoris and aortic regurgitation combined with thymoma].
A case of a 72-year-old female with obstruction of LAD, stenosis of RCA, aortic regurgitation in moderate degree and an anterior mediastinal mass of 7 cm in diameter, is reported. Coronary artery bypass grafting, aortic valve replacement and thymectomy were simultaneously performed. On microscopic examination, the tumor was diagnosed as a mixed typed thymoma in the first stage of Masaoka's classification. She was making satisfactory progress without recurrence, after the operation. There was no case has been reported previously in the world in which simultaneous operations were performed for angina pectoris, aortic regurgitation and thymoma.
Kouzu
S
S
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagano Red Cross Hospital, Japan.
Fujii
N
N
Shinohara
M
M
Sode
Y
Y
Yoshioka
J
J
Akahane
K
K
Tozuka
N
N
Sawaki
S
S
D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D005260:Female; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D013934:Thymectomy; D013945:Thymoma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*