Key result
Surgical debridement and mechanical valve replacement successfully treated a rapidly growing infected left atrial myxoma complicated by abscess and hemorrhagic cerebral infarctions.
Surgical resection and mitral valve replacement combined with appropriate antibiotic therapy were successful for a rare case of rapidly growing infected left atrial myxoma complicated by cerebral infarction.
May guide management of rare infected myxomas; leaves open need for prospective data on generalizability.
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Fujii et al. (2018) studied this question. Surgical debridement and mechanical valve replacement successfully treated a rapidly growing infected left atrial myxoma complicated by abscess and hemorrhagic cerebral infarctions.
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