Key result
Surgical excision successfully treated a 2.5-year-old female patient with a giant intracardiac blood cyst causing mild-to-moderate mitral regurgitation and obstruction.
Why the study?
Intracardiac blood cysts are rare congenital malformations that usually regress early in infancy, but can occasionally cause obstruction, valvular dysfunction, or embolism.
Case Report (n=1)
Surgical excision is a successful treatment for rare symptomatic intracardiac blood cysts in pediatric patients.
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Echocardiographers should consider blood cysts in adults; extends sparse adult case literature but leaves management thresholds open.
Karagözlü et al. (2020) conducted a case report in Intracardiac blood cyst of the mitral valve (n=1). Surgical excision was evaluated on Successful treatment. Surgical excision successfully treated a 2.5-year-old female patient with a giant intracardiac blood cyst causing mild-to-moderate mitral regurgitation and obstruction.
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