Primary Multiple Cardiac Myxomas in a Patient without the Carney Complex.
- Author:
Shohei KATAOKA
1
;
Masato OTSUKA
;
Masayuki GOTO
;
Mitsuru KAHATA
;
Asako KUMAGAI
;
Koji INOUE
;
Hiroshi KOGANEI
;
Kenji ENTA
;
Yasuhiro ISHII
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Multiple cardiac tumors; Myxoma; Carney complex
- MeSH: Aged; Breast Neoplasms; Carney Complex*; Echocardiography; Embolism; Female; Heart Atria; Heart Neoplasms; Heart Ventricles; Humans; Myxoma*; Pigmentation; Skin
- From:Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2016;24(1):71-74
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: Cardiac tumors are rare, and multiple myxomas are even rarer. The latter phenomenon is mostly associated with the Carney complex, a dominantly inherited disease characterized by multiple primary cardiac myxomas, endocrinopathy, and spotty pigmentation of the skin. We report the rare case of a patient who did not have the Carney complex but had multiple primary cardiac tumors. A 78-year-old woman with a past history of breast cancer was referred to our hospital for further examination of multiple cardiac tumors. Echocardiography showed 4 tumors in the left atrium and left ventricle. We could not diagnose them preoperatively and decided to resect them surgically because they were mobile and could have caused embolism and obstruction. The postoperative pathological findings of all 4 tumors were myxomas, although the patient did not meet the diagnostic criteria of the Carney complex. Therefore, a rare case of multiple primary cardiac myxomas was diagnosed.
