title: Aortic valve myxoma mimicking vegetation: report of a case.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, Hokkaido Ohno Hospital, 1-30, 4-1 Nishino, Sapporo, Hokkaido 063-0034, Japan.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: Hirosato
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Doi
authors.forename: Toshinobu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kazui
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Ryuji
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Koshima
authors.forename: Takehiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugiki
authors.forename: Takemi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohno
mesh_terms: 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