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Multiple left atrial myxoma: case report
José Carlos Dorsa Vieira Pontes1, Guilherme Viotto Rodrigues da Silva, Ricardo Adala Benfatti
1Departamento de Clínica Cirúrgica, UFMS, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.carlosdorsa@uol.com.br.
Abstract:
Primary cardiac tumors are infrequent, with an incidence between 0.001% and 0.2%, mostly comprising benign histological characteristics in 75% of these cases. Myxomas account for approximately 50% of these neoplasms. As regards location, 75-80% of myxomas are in the left atrium, 18% in the right atrium, and more rarely in the ventricles. We report a case of a patient in functional class (FC) IV New York Heart Association (NYHA) and postoperative histological diagnosis of multilobular myxoma originating in the posterior left atrial wall. Clinical evaluation 3 months after surgery suggested NYHA functional class I and echocardiographic absence of intracardiac masses.
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