Aortic valve myxoma mimicking vegetation: report of a case

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...

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Published inSurgery today (Tokyo, Japan) Vol. 36; no. 10; pp. 927 - 929
Main Authors Okamoto, Takashi, Doi, Hirosato, Kazui, Toshinobu, Suzuki, Masato, Koshima, Ryuji, Yamashita, Takehiro, Sugiki, Kenji, Ohno, Takemi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Japan 01.10.2006
Subjects
Aortic Valve
Cardiac Surgical Procedures
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography
Endocarditis - diagnosis
Female
Heart Neoplasms - diagnosis
Heart Neoplasms - surgery
Humans
Middle Aged
Myxoma - diagnosis
Myxoma - surgery
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Summary: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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ISSN:0941-1291
1436-2813
DOI:10.1007/s00595-006-3273-y