The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, Table of Contents Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2010; 58(4): 248-250DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1240831 Case Reports © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York Unidentified Retained Inferior Vena Cava Myxoma Detected by Intra-Operative Trans-Oesophageal Echocardiography H. A. Vohra1 , N. J. Phillips1 , L. Nel1 , P. Diprose1 , S. K. Ohri1 1Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom Recommend Article Abstract Buy Article All articles of this category 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 Full Text References References 1 Irani A D, Estrera A L, Buja L M, Safi H J. Biatrial myxoma: a case report and review of the literature. J Card Surg. 2008; 23 (4) 385-390 2 Casey M, Mah C, Merliss A D. Identification of a novel genetic locus for familial cardiac myxomas and Carney complex. Circulation. 1998; 98 (23) 2560-2566 3 Casey M, Vaughan C J, He J. Mutations in protein kinase A R1alpha regulatory subunit cause familial cardiac myxomas and Carney complex. J Clin Invest. 2000; 106 (5) R31-R38 4 Parsons A M, Detterbeck F C. Multifocal right atrial myxoma and pulmonary embolism. Ann Thorac Surg. 2003; 75 (4) 1323-1324 5 O'Keefe P A, Jin X Y, Jenkins M, Amadi A A, Bennett J G. Unidentified retained left atrial myxoma: intra-operative detection by trans-oesophageal echocardiography. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 1995; 9 (10) 599-601 Dr. Sunil K. Ohri Wessex Cardiothoracic CentreUniversity Hospitals Southampton Tremona Road SO16 Southampton United Kingdom Phone: +44 23 80 77 72 22 Fax: +44 20 85 51 99 14 Email: sunil.ohri@south.west.nhs.uk
