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Aortic valve myxoma mimicking vegetation: report of a case
Takashi Okamoto1, Hirosato Doi, Toshinobu Kazui
1Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, Hokkaido Ohno Hospital, 1-30, 4-1 Nishino, Sapporo, Hokkaido 063-0034, Japan.
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.
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