Aortic valve myxoma mimicking vegetation: report of a case.
We report a case of cardiac myxoma of the aortic valve. To our knowledge, this represents only the seventh such case ever documented. A 61-year-old woman underwent an echocardiography to screen for hypertensive-diabetic cardiac complications, which showed a mass on her aortic valve. Although she had not experienced a fever, the mass closely resembled a vegetation, resulting in an initial diagnosis of infective endocarditis. We extirpated the mass and repaired the aortic valve with the patient under cardiopulmonary bypass. The postoperative course was uneventful. Histological examination confirmed that the mass was a myxoma.
Okamoto
Takashi
T
Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, Hokkaido Ohno Hospital, 1-30, 4-1 Nishino, Sapporo, Hokkaido 063-0034, Japan.
Doi
Hirosato
H
Kazui
Toshinobu
T
Suzuki
Masato
M
Koshima
Ryuji
R
Yamashita
Takehiro
T
Sugiki
Kenji
K
Ohno
Takemi
T
D001021:Aortic Valve; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery