Unidentified retained inferior vena cava myxoma detected by intra-operative trans-oesophageal echocardiography.
We report a unilateral right atrial familial myxoma with a multicentric nature discovered during cardiac surgery. After the patient was weaned off cardiopulmonary bypass, an inferior vena cava myxoma was discovered with intra-operative trans-oesophageal echocardiogram (TOE) which had been missed preoperatively and during surgery.
Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton, UK.
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D000328:Adult; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery