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Concomitant pulmonary embolectomy and excision of a left atrial myxoma
Toshihiro Fukui1, Shigefumi Suehiro, Toshihiko Shibata
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan. tm-fukui@gem.hi-ho.ne.jp
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|March 13, 2003
Abstract:
We report a rare case of concomitant pulmonary embolectomy and excision of a left atrial myxoma. A 64-year-old obese woman developed a pulmonary embolism 13 days after an operation for a brain tumor. Echocardiography revealed a 3-cm left atrial mass attached to the atrial septum. Urgent surgery, including pulmonary embolectomy and excision of the left atrial mass, was performed. Histopathology confirmed that the mass was a left atrial myxoma. The postoperative course was uneventful.