Primary cardiac mass lesions (a study of 24 cases).

Abstract

ABSTRACTOver the last ten years we have come across 24 cases of cardiac mass lesions (tumors and cysts). twenty‐one were atrial myxomas, one fibrosarcoma of the right ventricle, one mesothelioma of the pericardium and one hydatid cyst of the epicardium.Of the 21 myxomas, 17 were in the left atrium and three in the right atrium. There was no case of bilateral myxoma or right ventricular myxoma. There was no female prepondrance in our series of myxomas as 11 were males and 10 were females, The myxomas were consistently identified by cine angiocardiography and echocar‐diography. Nineteen myxomas were successfully treated surgically with one early mortality and another late mortality. Both died of non‐cardiac complications.