A Rare Case of Aortic Valve Myxoma: Easy to Confuse With Papillary Fibroelastoma

Myxoma of the aortic valve is an exceedingly uncommon condition. In this article, we report the case of a 72-year-old man with myxoma arising from the aortic valve. We extirpated the mass and repaired the aortic valve with the patient under cardiopulmonary bypass. The postoperative course was uneven...

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Autores principales: Kim, Hyung Yoon, Kwon, Sung Uk, Jang, Woo-Ik, Kim, Han-Seong, Kim, Jin Suk, Lee, Han Sang, Park, Min Yong, Kim, Taewan, Lee, Sung Yun, Doh, Joon Hyung, Namgung, June, Lee, Won Roo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Cardiology 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22563343
http://dx.doi.org/10.4070/kcj.2012.42.4.281
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Sumario:Myxoma of the aortic valve is an exceedingly uncommon condition. In this article, we report the case of a 72-year-old man with myxoma arising from the aortic valve. We extirpated the mass and repaired the aortic valve with the patient under cardiopulmonary bypass. The postoperative course was uneventful. Histological examination confirmed that the mass was a myxoma.

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