Unidentified Retained Inferior Vena Cava Myxoma Detected by Intra-Operative Trans-Oesophageal Echocardiography

Abstract

We report a unilateral right atrial familial myxoma with a multicentric nature discovered during cardiac surgery. After the patient was weaned off cardiopulmonary bypass, an inferior vena cava myxoma was discovered with intra-operative trans-oesophageal echocardiogram (TOE) which had been missed preoperatively and during surgery.

Key words

Cardiovascular surgery - heart disease - thoracic surgery

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