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A rare cardiac tumor in childhood: right atrial myxoma
A rare cardiac tumor in childhood: right atrial myxoma
Adnan Taner Kurdal, Mazhar Eserdağ, İhsan İşkesen, Bekir Hayrettin Şirin
Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Kalp ve Damar Cerrahisi Anabilim Dalı, Manisa
Myxoma is a rare tumor in childhood and unlike left atrial
localization is quite rare in right atrium. A 14-year-old
male child presented with complains of exertional dyspnea
and tachycardia. Transthoracic echocardiography
revealed a huge myxoma in the right atrium, closing the
inferior vena cava orifice and causing tricuspid stenosis.
Cardiopulmonary bypass was started only with superior
vena cava cannulation. Inferior vena cava cannulation was
performed after cardiac arrest due to the embolic risk. The
total resection was performed by right atriotomy.
Keywords : Heart neoplasms; myxoma; tricuspid valve
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