Surgical excision of a giant left atrial myxoma in an eight-year-old child presenting with heart failure led to an uneventful recovery.
An eight-year-old child presented with congestive heart failure, blurred vision, and unexplained constitutional symptoms. An echocardiogram demonstrated a giant left atrial mass that obstructed the mitral valve inflow. After excision of the myxoma, the patient had an uneventful recovery.
Sernich et al. (Wed,) studied this question.