Reports a rare case of a cardiac myxoma originating from the anterior mitral valve leaflet that was successfully excised without requiring valve replacement.
Supports valve-sparing resection in rare anterior mitral myxoma; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Primary cardiac tumors are rare and myxoma is the most common tumor among them. Cardiac myxoma usually occurs in the left atrium. Myxoma originating from mitral valve is extremely rare. We report a case of mitral valve myxoma. The tumor originated from the anterior mitral valve leaflet. The tumor was completely removed and replacement of the mitral valve was not done.
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