Use of echocardiogram in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cardiac myxomata
Keywords:
cardiac tumors, cardiac myxomata, echocardiogram, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery Service.Abstract
A descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study, of 51 patients with intracavity cardiac tumors of the histologic variety myxoma who were assisted and operated in the Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery Service of "Saturnino Lora Torres" Teaching Clinical Surgical Provincial Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, was carried out from January, 1987 to the same month in 2016, aimed at describing the main clinical and echocardiographic characteristics in them. In the series women (64.7 %) and the 40-49 age group (33.3 %) prevailed; in 86.3 % of the patients the tumor was in the left atrium, in 11.8 %, in the right atrium and 1.9 %, in the left ventricle. In all those affected patients the echocardiogram (bidimensional and Doppler) was the method of decisive diagnosis and the irreplaceable tool for decisions making of the cardiologist and cardiovascular surgeon.
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