Left atrial appendage mass: is it always a thrombus?

Hikmet Sahratov; Adem Guler; Mustafa Kurkluoglu; Fahri Gurkan Yesil; Murat Tavlasoglu; Faruk Cingoz

doi:10.5114/kitp.2016.64881

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Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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Left atrial appendage mass: is it always a thrombus?

Hikmet Sahratov

,

Adem Guler

,

Mustafa Kurkluoglu

,

Fahri Gurkan Yesil

,

Murat Tavlasoglu

,

Faruk Cingoz

Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia 2016; 13 (4): 359-360

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2016.64881

Online publish date: 2016/12/30

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Myxomas are the most common benign tumors of the heart. Cardiac myxomas are found in the left atrium in 80–90% of cases and are often attached to the interatrial septum. Myxomas originating from the left atrial appendage are very rare. In this report, we present a patient in whom surgery was performed after the diagnosis of mitral valve stenosis, chronic atrial fibrillation, and a possible left atrial appendage (LAA) thrombus (which was incidentally diagnosed as a myxoma).

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Left atrial appendage mass: is it always a thrombus?

Hikmet Sahratov , Adem Guler , Mustafa Kurkluoglu , Fahri Gurkan Yesil , Murat Tavlasoglu , Faruk Cingoz

left atrial appendage, myxoma, mitral valve

Hikmet Sahratov

,

Adem Guler

,

Mustafa Kurkluoglu

,

Fahri Gurkan Yesil

,

Murat Tavlasoglu

,

Faruk Cingoz