An unusual marrow transplant complication: cardiac myxoma.
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.
Baronciani
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Divisione Ematologica e Centro Trapianto di Midollo Osseo di Muraglia, Azienda Ospedale de Pesaro, Italy.
Angelucci
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E
Polchi
P
P
Martinelli
F
F
Mariotti
E
E
Marzocchi
A
A
Longo
M
M
Poggi
S
S
Pileri
S
S
Lucarelli
G
G
D000293:Adolescent; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000209:etiology*