Cardiac myxomas overproduce IL-6 mRNA, which may explain the systemic inflammatory manifestations associated with these tumors.
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May explain constitutional symptoms in cardiac myxoma; hypothesis-generating for IL-6 blockade, pending larger studies.
Seino et al. (1993) studied this question.
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