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Mitral valve myxomas: an unusual entity.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Oliveira, Ricardo Gil Branco, Luísa Días, Liliana Salomé Días Timóteo, Ana Teresa Patrício, Lino Agapito, Ana Figueiredo Robalo, Filipe Mendes, João Felippe Pinto, Eugénia Cristina Miranda Ferreira, Rui Cruz |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Primary tumours of the heart are uncommon entities, cardiac myxomas being the most frequent. However, mitral valve myxomas are exceptionally rare. In the last 12 years, there have been 25 myxomas diagnosed at our institution, with only two of them originating from the mitral valve. Both patients were female, the first, 25, and the second, 72 years old. The younger patient was very symptomatic with a large mass, 4 cm long, which involved both leaflets causing significant obstruction to the left ventricular inflow. The second one had a smaller mass located at the atrial side of the posterior leaflet that only produced some flow divergence. Neither of them had constitutional nor embolic symptoms. Both patients were submitted to emergent surgical resection that in the first case involved the mitral valve and replacement with mechanical prosthesis. The macroscopic appearance of these tumours suggested a malignant aetiology which may represent somewhat different features of the myxomas when originating from the cardiac valves. Both patients are well reflecting the good prognosis of this illness after resection, although the younger patient was re-operated because of prosthetic valve obstruction and suspicion of recurrence that was not confirmed. Because of the illustrative images and different presentations, we found it interesting to report and discuss them together. |
| Starting Page | 316 |
| Ending Page | 316 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://repositorio.chlc.min-saude.pt/bitstream/10400.17/532/1/Eur%20J%20Echocard%202008%20181.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 18267920v1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1093/ejechocard/jem062 |
| DOI | 10.1093/ejechocard/jem062 |
| Journal | European journal of echocardiography : the journal of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology |
| Volume Number | 9 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Forecast of outcome Heart Atrium Heart Valves Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome Myxoma of the Endocardium Neoplasms Obstruction Patients Prosthesis Implantation Small Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
