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Open Access A Giant Right Atrial Myxoma with Blood Supply from the Left and Right Coronary Arteries: Once in a Blue Moon

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Authors: Xiao, Yichao; Fang, Zhenfei; Hu, Xinqun; Liu, Qiming; Zhu, Zhaowei; Liu, Na; Peng, Xiaofan; Zhou, Shenghua

Source: Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, Volume 4, Number 3, 1 January 2020, pp. 201-204(4)

Publisher: Compuscript

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15212/CVIA.2019.0566

This article is Open Access under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC licence.

Cardiac myxomas, the commonest primary benign cardiac tumors, are extremely rare, with an incidence ranging from 0.0017 to 0.19% and only about one-fifth of them originating from the right chambers of the heart. A 60-year-old woman was admitted because of recurrent attacks of chest tightness and shortness of breath. Transthoracic echocardiography detected a giant mass in the right atrium; myxoma was indicated by [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT. Preoperative selective coronary angiography was performed to assess the extent and severity of coronary stenosis, and showed a strongly neovascularized right atrial mass supplied by two feeding vessels with multiple branches from the left and right coronary arteries. The myxoma was successfully excised with open heart surgery and the patient was free of myxoma recurrence during the 3-year follow-up.

Keywords: cardiac myxomas; coronary angiography; neovascularization

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: Department of Cardiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011 Hunan, People’s Republic of China

Publication date: January 1, 2020

This article was made available online on January 20, 2020 as a Fast Track article with title: "A Giant Right Atrial Myxoma with Blood Supply from the Left and Right Coronary Arteries: Once in a Blue Moon".

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  • Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) publishes focused articles and original clinical research that explore novel developments in cardiovascular disease, effective control and rehabilitation in cardiovascular disease, and promote cardiovascular innovations and applications for the betterment of public health globally. The journal publishes basic research that has clinical applicability in order to promote timely communication of the latest insights relating to coronary artery disease, heart failure, hypertension, cardiac arrhythmia, prevention of cardiovascular disease with a heavy emphasis on risk factor modification. Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications is the official journal of the Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology (GW-ICC). It aims to continue the work of the GW-ICC by providing a global scientific communication platform for cardiologists that bridges East and West.

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