TY - JOUR
T1 - Right atrial myxoma. Unusual presentation with cyanosis and clubbing
AU - Talley, Robert C.
AU - Baldwin, Brian J.
AU - Symbas, Panagiotis N.
AU - Nutter, Donald O.
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* From the Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiology), and the Department of Surgery (Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Sur. gery), Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia. This paper was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health Cardiovascular Training No. 5TOlHE05653. Requests reprints be addressed .to Dr. Robert Talley. received May 14. 1969. address: University of Texas Medical at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.
PY - 1970/2
Y1 - 1970/2
N2 - The clinical, laboratory and operative findings in a forty-nine year old woman with a right atrial myxoma are described. The patient presented with hepatomegaly, cyanosis and clubbing of unknown etiology. Cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography established the correct diagnosis of right atrial myxoma and demonstrated a right to left shunt at the atrial level. With the patient under total cardiopulmonary bypass, the tumor, associated right atrial wall and interatrial septum were successfully resected, and the interatrial septum and atrial wall were reconstructed. The varied and often perplexing clinical presentations of right atrial myomas are emphasized. The findings in four other patients with right atrial myxomas and associated right to left shunts described in the literature are also summarized.
AB - The clinical, laboratory and operative findings in a forty-nine year old woman with a right atrial myxoma are described. The patient presented with hepatomegaly, cyanosis and clubbing of unknown etiology. Cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography established the correct diagnosis of right atrial myxoma and demonstrated a right to left shunt at the atrial level. With the patient under total cardiopulmonary bypass, the tumor, associated right atrial wall and interatrial septum were successfully resected, and the interatrial septum and atrial wall were reconstructed. The varied and often perplexing clinical presentations of right atrial myomas are emphasized. The findings in four other patients with right atrial myxomas and associated right to left shunts described in the literature are also summarized.
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-9343(70)90123-3
DO - 10.1016/0002-9343(70)90123-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 5416267
AN - SCOPUS:0014736744
SN - 0002-9343
VL - 48
SP - 256
EP - 260
JO - The American Journal of Medicine
JF - The American Journal of Medicine
IS - 2
ER -