Anesthetic Management for the Excision of Left Atrial Myxoid Sarcoma Preoperatively Diagnosed as a Left Atrial Myxoma: A case report.
10.4097/kjae.2004.46.4.484
- Author:
Hyun Kyoung LIM
1
;
Hong Sik LEE
;
Hae Jin PARK
;
Jong Kwon JUNG
;
Jang Ho SONG
;
Jin Man SONG
;
Choon Soo LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inha University College of Medicine, Inchoen, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
anesthetic management;
cardiac myxoid sarcoma;
cardiac myxoma;
echocardiography
- MeSH:
Diagnosis;
Diagnosis, Differential;
Diagnostic Tests, Routine;
Echocardiography;
Echocardiography, Transesophageal;
Heart Atria;
Humans;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging;
Mitral Valve;
Myxoma*;
Pneumonectomy;
Pulmonary Veins;
Sarcoma*
- From:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
2004;46(4):484-488
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We report a case of myxoid sarcoma in the left atrium, which was diagnosed as benign myxoma on preoperative echocardiography. At operation, semisolid mobile masses were found that attached with broad stalk to the posterior left atrial wall and that invaded into the left pulmonary vein and the anterior mitral leaflet. The patient underwent excision of left atrial tumor masses, mitral valve replacement, and left pneumonectomy. The histological diagnosis was undifferentiated cardiac myxoid sarcoma. Although echocardiography lead to the choice of diagnostic test of intra-atrial tumor, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, and intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography may be needed for differential diagnosis, with indeterminate malignant findings on preoperative transthoracic echocardiography. Anesthesiologists are often confronted with cases that are unusual, therefore preoperative understanding of the cases are important for safe anesthetic management.
