Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska

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4/2016 vol. 13

Left atrial appendage mass: is it always a thrombus?

Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia 2016; 13 (4): 359-360
Online publish date: 2016/12/30
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Confronting perimenopausal women’s knowledge of coronary heart disease with their health behaviours. Controversial role of hormone replacement therapy in the protection of coronary heart disease
Myxomas are the most common benign tumors of the heart. Cardiac myxomas are found in the left atrium in 80–90% of cases and are often attached to the interatrial septum. Myxomas originating from the left atrial appendage are very rare. In this report, we present a patient in whom surgery was performed after the diagnosis of mitral valve stenosis, chronic atrial fibrillation, and a possible left atrial appendage (LAA) thrombus (which was incidentally diagnosed as a myxoma).
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