Case report: Resection of a giant right ventricular myxoma. 2023

Jin Rao, and Qian Yang, and Liang Yin, and Yue Yu, and Wang Xi, and Jibin Xu, and Yufeng Zhang, and Zhinong Wang
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Changzheng Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.

Myxoma constitutes the main subtype of all benign cardiac tumors, tending to be more common in women and occurring mostly in the left and right atria. Its classic clinical presentations are intracardiac obstruction, embolization, and systemic or constitutional symptoms, such as fever, in decreasing order. Several imaging techniques such as echocardiography, computed tomography, and angiocardiography contribute to the diagnosis of myxoma, ruling out significant coronary diseases, and assessment of myocardial invasion and tumor involvement of adjacent structures. Surgical resection is the only effective therapeutic option for patients with cardiac myxoma. Here, we report a unique case of a middle-aged man who presented with a giant myxoma and a 3-day history of chest tightness and shortness of breath after physical activity. Subsequently, transthoracic echocardiography revealed a mass of solid echodensity located within the right ventricle, complicated by abnormal hemodynamics. A cardiac computed tomographic angiography showed a large homogeneous density filling defect consuming most parts of the right ventricle and protruding from beat to beat. A surgical resection and histological study later successfully confirmed the diagnosis, and the patient's postoperative recovery course was found to be uneventful.

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