Unusual growth of a left atrial myxoma complicated by a secundum atrial septal defect.
A 55 year-old man had a myxoma that originated in the left atrium and grew through a secundum atrial septal defect into the right atrium. The tumor, which was attached by a pedicle to the lateral wall of the left atrium near the right pulmonary vein, was resected under cardiopulmonary bypass. Transesophageal echocardiography was important in the successful outcome of surgical treatment.
Watanabe
Takashi
T
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, Kawasaki-Saiwai Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan. soccer-v@lily.ocn.ne.jp
Minami
Kazu
K
Miyamoto
Akira
A
Sugiyabu
Yasunori
Y
Akita
Masafumi
M
Nukariya
Michio
M
D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome