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Bi-auricular myxoma associated with atrioventricular dissociation in an 18-year-old boy: a case report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2011

Jacques C. Tantchou Tchoumi ,
Alessandro Giamberti ,
Silvia Cirri  and
Gianfranco Butera
Jacques C. Tantchou Tchoumi*
Affiliation:
Cardiac Centre, St Elizabeth Catholic General Hospital, PO Box 8 Kumbo, Cameroon
Alessandro Giamberti
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Policlinico San Donato IRCCS, Via Morandi 30, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy
Silvia Cirri
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Policlinico San Donato IRCCS, Via Morandi 30, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy
Gianfranco Butera
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Policlinico San Donato IRCCS, Via Morandi 30, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy
*
Correspondence to: Dr J. C. Tantchou Tchoumi Cardiologist, MD, PhD, Cardiac Centre, St Elizabeth Catholic General Hospital, Shisong, PO Box 8, Kumbo, Cameroon. Tel: (237) 99 32 37 42; E-mail: tantchouj@yahoo.fr
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Abstract

Primary cardiac tumours are rarely found and have an incidence of 0.3% in all open-heart surgeries. Among those, approximately 70% are myxomas, most of them in the left atrium. The reported incidence of cardiac tumours in autopsy series is 0.001–0.28%. Right atrial myxomas are uncommon, but when present they often originate from the interatrial septum, and conduction disturbances are rarely noted as an accompanying feature in this condition. We report the case of an 18-year-old boy with a myxoma in both left and right atrium associated with atrioventricular dissociation.

Keywords

Left atriummyxomamale

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Brief Report
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 2012 , pp. 341 - 343
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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