Robot-Assisted Removal of a Recurrent Left Ventricular Myxoma.

Ventricular myxomas are rare compared with atrial myxomas. Unlike with atrial myxomas, it is usually challenging to visualize a ventricular mass because of the complex structures in the left ventricle. We report the case of a 44-year-old woman who had a recurrent left ventricular myxoma 8 years after the initial surgical removal. We successfully performed reoperative tumor resection with a robot-assisted approach through the mitral valve. The robot-assisted approach was extremely effective for visualization of the tumor and precise instrumentation without injuring the surrounding structures.