Why the study?
Does radical resection or cardiac transplantation improve survival in patients with primary cardiac tumours?
Population
7 patients with primary cardiac tumours other than benign atrial myxomas.
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
Up to 5.5 years
Authors
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May support resection or transplantation for select cardiac tumors; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Does radical resection or cardiac transplantation improve survival in patients with primary cardiac tumours?
Radical resection of large benign cardiac tumours yields good results, while early cardiac transplantation may offer the only hope for patients with malignant cardiac tumours.
ARAVOT et al. (1989) studied this question.
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