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Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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1/2010
vol. 7
 
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KARDIOCHIRURGIA DOROSŁYCH
Cardiac myxoma: 10 years’ experience in 29 patients operated on with crystalloid cardioplegia – short- and long-term results

Maciej Rachwalik
,
Marta Obremska
,
Anna Goździk
,
Rafał Nowicki
,
Grzegorz Bielicki
,
Jacek Jakubaszko
,
Andrzej Dumański
,
Marek Pelczar
,
Andrzej Stachurski
,
Janusz Oczko
,
Wojciech Kustrzycki

Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 2010; 7 (1): 23–26
Online publish date: 2010/03/31
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Background: Cardiac myxoma is generally considered to be a surgical emergency. Cardiac myxomas were resected in 29 patients.

Material and methods: Patient data and data obtained during follow-up from the 10-year period 1999-2008 of the survivors were reviewed. The tumour was always removed within 24 hours of admission.

Results: Early survival was 100%. Long-term results were collected from a group of 27 patients and all of them were symptom-free. Most cases of cardiac myxoma observed over the last decade correspond to stable forms.

Conclusions: Myxoma is usually observed in the older and higher risk population, often at an early stage. Surgical excision of atrial myxoma gives excellent short-term and long-term results leading to an eventual cure of non-familial myxomas. However, familial myxomas retain a strong tendency to recur even 20 years after excision.
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myxoma, cardiac surgery, crystalloid cardioplegia

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