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Aortic Valve Myxoma Mimicking Vegetation: Report of a Case

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We report a case of cardiac myxoma of the aortic valve. To our knowledge, this represents only the seventh such case ever documented. A 61-year-old woman underwent an echocardiography to screen for hypertensive–diabetic cardiac complications, which showed a mass on her aortic valve. Although she had not experienced a fever, the mass closely resembled a vegetation, resulting in an initial diagnosis of infective endocarditis. We extirpated the mass and repaired the aortic valve with the patient under cardiopulmonary bypass. The postoperative course was uneventful. Histological examination confirmed that the mass was a myxoma.

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  1. Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, Hokkaido Ohno Hospital, 1-30, 4-1 Nishino, Nishi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 063-0034, Japan

    Takashi Okamoto, Hirosato Doi, Toshinobu Kazui, Masato Suzuki, Ryuji Koshima, Kenji Sugiki & Takemi Ohno

  2. Departments of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, Hokkaido Ohno Hospital, 1-30, 4-1 Nishino, Nishi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 063-0034, Japan

    Takehiro Yamashita

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Okamoto, T., Doi, H., Kazui, T. et al. Aortic Valve Myxoma Mimicking Vegetation: Report of a Case. Surg Today 36, 927–929 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-006-3273-y

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