A 57 year-old woman with a large right atrial myxoma underwent emergency surgical
resection in our institute. It is known that surgical management of such tumours is
difficult regarding venous cannulation and embolic risk, but in our patient, the surgery
was more challenging because of the severe left ventricular dysfunction.
Thus, we aim on the one hand, to discuss the association between the left ventricular
dysfunction and the right atrial myxoma, and, on the other hand, to describe the on-pump
beating heart technique we used to remove this mass.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: October 24, 2012
Accepted:
July 24,
2012
Received in revised form:
July 1,
2012
Received:
May 14,
2012
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© 2012 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
