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Case Reports
. 2011 Feb 3:6:12.
doi: 10.1186/1749-8090-6-12.

Carney-Complex: multiple resections of recurrent cardiac myxoma

Christian Bireta  1 , Aron F Popov, Hanna Schotola, Brian Trethowan, Martin Friedrich, Mohamed El-Mehsen, Friedrich A Schoendube, Theodor Tirilomis
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Case Reports

Carney-Complex: multiple resections of recurrent cardiac myxoma

Christian Bireta et al. J Cardiothorac Surg. .

Abstract

We report a case of a female patient who was operated at the third relapse of an atrial myxoma caused by Carney complex. The difficult operation was performed without any complications despite extensive adhesions caused by the previous operations. The further inpatient course went without complications and the patient was discharged to the consecutive treatment on the 9th postoperative day. The echocardiographic finding postoperative showed no abnormalities.

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Intraoperative finding of the resected myxoma.
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