Tansel Turkan, El Helin, Gok Emre
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
J Card Surg. 2011 May;26(3):286-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2011.01239.x. Epub 2011 Apr 14.
Cardiac myxomas are most commonly found within the left atrium. We now report a patient presenting with dyspnea, palpitation, and chest pain who was found to have myxoma arising from the pulmonary valve commissure. Urgent surgical treatment is curative and warranted for these lesions, in order to prevent outflow obstruction and thromboembolic phenomena.
