Key result
Surgical excision of an asymptomatic left ventricular myxoma was successfully performed in a 69-year-old woman, adding to a literature review of 72 previously published cases.
Population
69-year-old woman with an asymptomatic myxoma in the left ventricle, along with a brief review of 72 other…
Design
Case_report
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May support individualized surgical decisions for asymptomatic left ventricular myxoma; leaves open optimal management pending prospective data.
Surgical excision of an asymptomatic left ventricular myxoma was successful, adding to the limited literature of surgically treated cases.
Abad et al. (2014) studied this question. Surgical excision of an asymptomatic left ventricular myxoma was successfully performed in a 69-year-old woman, adding to a literature review of 72 previously published cases.