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Familial cardiac myxoma with multifocal recurrences:a case report and review of the literature
Authors:Hailong Cao a  Yanhu Wu b  Jinfu Zhu b  Yijiang Chen b a
Institution:Hailong Cao a,Yanhu Wu b,Jinfu Zhu b,Yijiang Chen b a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery,the Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School,Nanjing,Jiangsu 210008,China,b Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery,the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University,Jiangsu 210029
Abstract:We report a case of myxoma with multiple recurrences in both the atrium and ventricle in a 26-year-old woman five years after the surgical removal of left atrial myxoma.Her 52-year-old mother had a similar medical history.To our knowledge,this was the first familial case who suffered multifocal cardiac myxoma recurrences without any sign of the myxoma complex.Based on our understanding of the mechanism of recurrence,the approaches to prevent the recurrence,and markers to predict recurrence,we propose that m...
Keywords:cardiac myxoma  familial  multifocal  recurrence  
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