SurgICAL TrEATmENT OF HEArT mYXOmAS
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During a period from 1961 until May 2006, there were 50 patients 32 female and 18 male with myxoma of the heart who were treated at the Clinic of Cardiac Surgery of the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade. In 43 patients myxoma was situated within the left atrium, in 5 patients within the right atrium, and in one case within the left and the right ventricle each. The classic triad of myxoma clinical presentation is AV valvular obstruction in over 80% of patients, embolization as well as systemic and constitutional symptoms. Diagnostics has been performed mainly by noninvasive methods, mostly echocardiography. All patients were operated using extracorporal circulation and complete removal of tumor was done, followed by pathohistological verification. Valvular damage was solved by either implantation of the artifitial valve or reconstruction of the natural one. Operative mortality rate was 6%. There was no recurrence.
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