A rare case of left ventricular cardiac myxoma with obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract and atypical involvement of the mitral valve.

Autor: Robert J; Spital Netz Bern Tiefenau, Berne, Switzerland. jens.robert@insel.ch, Brack M, Hottinger S, Kadner A, Baur HR
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: European journal of echocardiography : the journal of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology [Eur J Echocardiogr] 2009 Jun; Vol. 10 (4), pp. 593-5. Date of Electronic Publication: 2009 Mar 27.
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jep031
Abstrakt: Cardiac myxomas originating from the left ventricular free wall are extremely rare. A 32-year-old Swiss male was found to have a 5 x 3 x 3 cm myxoma originating from the left ventricular free wall using transthoracic echocardiography. The tumour was successfully treated by surgical excision but the mitral valve could not be preserved because of an untypical interference of the myxoma with the subvalvular apparatus.
Databáze: MEDLINE