The management of fast-track cardiac anesthesia in a patient with right atrial myxoma

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.121

Biricik Melis Çakmak Gökçe, Gülnaz Arslan, Cevahir Haberal

¹Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Medical Faculty of Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey
²Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Faculty of Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.121

The incidence of primary cardiac tumors is low, accounting for only 0.3% of all open cardiac operations. Atrial myxomas are the most common type of primary cardiac tumors, and they may progress to life-threatening symptoms when they enlarge rapidly. Both pulmonary embolism and infective endocarditis are rare complications of right atrial myxomas. In this article, we report the anesthetic management of a patient with right atrial myxoma complicated by pulmonary embolism and infective endocarditis who was treated surgically with a fast-track cardiac anesthesia procedure during minimally invasive coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Keywords : Atrial myxoma; fast-track cardiac anesthesia; infective endocarditis; pulmonary embolism

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