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Cryoablation in Redo Surgery for a Recurrent Intimal Sarcoma of the Left Atrium
Kenta Yasuoka1, Kanji Matsuzaki1, Akito Imai1
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hitachi General Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan.
Objectives:
We report a rare case of a 52-year-old woman with a recurrent intimal sarcoma adjacent to the mitral prosthesis in the left atrium. She had previously undergone initial surgery for mitral valve intimal sarcoma at age 48.
Methods:
At this presentation, we resected a 25-mm tumour as well as the surrounding lesions. Cryoablation was applied using cryoICE on all resection margins and the posterior mitral annulus.
Results:
The use of a malleable probe facilitated the redo surgery. The patient has remained alive for more than 5 years following the initial operation and for 11 months after the subsequent redo surgery.
Conclusion:
Cryoablation may play an important role in improving surgical radicality in cardiac sarcoma.
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