Tricuspid valve myxoma in a patient with congestive heart failure

Myxomas are the most frequent benign primary cardiac tumours (50% of benign heart tumours). This kind of tumour is most likely to be localized in the left atrium, followed by the right atrium, right ventricle and left ventricle. Quite exceptional is the presence of a myxoma originating from the tric...

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Autores principales: Vizzardi, Enrico, D'Aloia, Antonio, Chiari, Ermannna, Nardi, Matilde, Zanini, Gregoriana, Cabras, Roberto, Faden, Giacomo, Maiandi, Cristian, Cas, Livio Dei
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2823714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205805
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-21
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Sumario:Myxomas are the most frequent benign primary cardiac tumours (50% of benign heart tumours). This kind of tumour is most likely to be localized in the left atrium, followed by the right atrium, right ventricle and left ventricle. Quite exceptional is the presence of a myxoma originating from the tricuspid valve or from the Eustachian valve. We describe the case of a woman with moderate dyspnoea of unknown origin and the presence of tricuspid myxoma who underwent tricuspid valve curettage.

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