Surgical resection of cardiac myxomas is effective, but patients with papillary myxomas have a significantly higher risk of embolic events compared to those with solid myxomas.
May inform embolic risk counseling by myxoma histology; hypothesis-generating and should not yet alter management.
Background: In this study, we reported the outcomes of surgical resection of cardiac myxomas performed in our center. Methods: A retrospective review of 99 patients (67 females, 32 males, mean age 49.8±16 years; range 5 to 76 years) who were operated for myxoma between January 1985 and December 2012 was conducted. Preoperative diagnosis was established by transthoracic echocardiography. The mean time to the last follow-up visit was 123.4±85.7 months. Results: All patients were operated through median sternotomy. The site of origin of the tumor was left atrium in 92 patients and the most common implantion site was interatrial septum in 85 patients. A complete resection of the tumor was performed in all patients except one. Forty five patients (45.5%) were diagnosed with a papillary myxoma, while 54 patients (54.5%) were diagnosed with a solid myxoma. The risk of embolic events in papillary type of myxoma was significantly higher than the solid type (44.4% vs. 9.3%, p
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