Perioperative outcomes of patients who underwent open-heart surgery for primary cardiac tumors: Brief report
- Author:
Delbrynth P Mitchao
1
;
Mark Edward Anthony M Maruya
1
Author Information
- Publication Type:Other Types
- MeSH: Heart Neoplasms; Cardiac Surgical Procedures
- From: Southern Philippines Medical Center Journal of Health Care Services 2020;6(2):1-4
- CountryPhilippines
- Language:English
- Abstract: Primary cardiac tumors are extremely rare, occurring in 0.001% to 0.3% of autopsies.1 Most cardiac tumors are metastatic, and they are usually diagnosed in approximately 10% of patients with non-cardiac primary tumors at autopsy.2 3 4 About 75% of primary cardiac tumors are benign and are predominantly myxomas.5 Only 25% of these tumors are malignant, and the most common types in both children and adults, are sarcomas (75%).1 6 7 In a retrospective study done among 255 patients with cardiac tumors in the Philippine Heart Center from 1976 to 2006, the incidence of benign tumors was 91.8% while malignant tumors were reported in 8.2% of cases. Eighty-nine percent of the patients were adults, and 11% were from the pediatric age group.8 As in other similar studies,5 9 the most common cardiac tumors in the Philippine study were myxoma among the adult participants and rhabdomyoma among the pediatric participants.
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