title: An unusual marrow transplant complication: cardiac myxoma.
abstract: We report a right atrial myxoma which suddenly developed in a thalassemic patient after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. The tumor was first detected by echocardiography on day +47 after transplant and the patient underwent surgical removal of the myxoma on day +103. The post-operative course was uneventful, and at more than 3 years from the event, he is alive and well, cured from his congenital disease, with no detectable intra-cardiac tumor. The onset of the myxoma in the early post-transplant period and the extremely high velocity of growth suggest a possible relationship of this condition with the immunosuppressive status.
authors.affiliation: Divisione Ematologica e Centro Trapianto di Midollo Osseo di Muraglia, Azienda Ospedale de Pesaro, Italy.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baronciani
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Angelucci
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Polchi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Martinelli
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mariotti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marzocchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Longo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Poggi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pileri
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lucarelli
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000209:etiology*