LONG TERM OBSERVATION IN A PATIENT WITH SYNDROME MYXOMA

• Published in: Japanese Journal of National Medical Services Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 349 - 353
• Main Authors: NISHIZAKI, Yoshitomo, MIKOUCHI, Hiroshi, NISHIZAKI, Susumu, MASAOKA, Yoshiko, OHKE, Masashi, TANIZAKI, Masayuki, FUJITA, Kunio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Japanese Society of National Medical Services 1995
• Subjects: Complex of myxomas; multiple cardiac mysomas; Relapse
• ISSN: 0021-1699; 1884-8729
• DOI: 10.11261/iryo1946.49.349

In 1989, we published in other journal a case of female patient who underwent bilateral adrenalectomy for Cushing syndrome at age 13 and developed multiple myxomas in her right heart system 10 years after the adrenalectomy. We report this case again, which we observed for another 10 years. Meanwhile, she married and got a child, but at pregnancy, developed synptoms suggestive of adrenocortical insufficiency and presented relapse of myxomas 6 years after extirpation of myxomas. Such a case as this was repoted originally by Schweizer-Cargianut et al, in 1980, and Carney et al, reported 40 cases collected from the literature, including 4 cases of theirs in 1985. In Japan, no cases other than that reported by Akama et al, has been reported. Thus the present case is regarded as the second in Japan. We presented a sequential report of this case because long-term observation has not yet been made of such a case in Japan, which was considered valuable.