This report documents one of the earliest successful surgical removals of a left atrial myxoma, demonstrating the feasibility of intracardiac tumor resection under hypothermia.
Successful case supports feasibility of hypothermic myxoma resection; leaves open standardization and broader applicability.
WE are reporting herewith the surgical removal of a myxoma from the cavity of the left atrium. The procedure was carried out under hypothermia and represents the first successful case reported from this country and the third in the literature (Crafoord,1 in 1954, and Bigelow et al.,2 in 1955, having recorded previous cases).The presenting symptoms and signs, as is usual, were characteristic of mitral stenosis of high degree. This is important, for it is certain that as an increasing number of intracardiac operations are carried out greater numbers of tumors primary within the chambers of the heart will be . . .
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