Abstract

DE QUESADA LOPEZ, Fernando; GONZALEZ ANCA, Ángel  and  RODRIGUEZ HUGUET, Marllelis. Left atrial myxoma: two case presentations. AMC [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.5, pp. 882-890. ISSN 1025-0255.

Introduction: primary cardiac tumors are rare in all ages, affecting approximately 0,002 % of the population. Most of these kinds of tumors are diagnosed in postmortem studies during the autopsy. Clinical case: two case reports which were diagnosed with primary cardiac tumors by two-dimensional echocardiography, unique, myxoma, mainly located in the left atrium. General symptoms were the first clinical manifestations of the disease. Both patients were operated on to remove the whole tumor, and after following up these patients for two years, an echocardiographic evidence of tumor recidivation was found in one of them, then, a second surgical intervention was needed. There was no deceased.

Keywords : MYXOMA [surgery]; ECHOCARDIOGRAFY; CASE STUDIES; HART NEOPLASMS.

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