Infected Left Atrial Myxoma.
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Population
47-year-old Japanese woman with infected left atrial myxoma and continuing high fever.
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Implication
Recovery after urgent excision in this case; leaves open optimal strategies for infected atrial myxoma.
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Population
47-year-old Japanese woman with infected left atrial myxoma and continuing high fever.
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Intervention
Urgent open heart surgery to remove the mass, and intravenous antibiotics (penicillin G 1.2 million units/day and imipenem/cilastatin 1.0 g/day).
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Outcome
Complete recovery from illness
Prompt diagnosis using echocardiography and blood culture followed by urgent surgical excision is crucial for the complete cure of infected atrial myxoma.
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Uchino et al. (2002) studied this question.
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