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article · Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Huge left atrial myxoma: about 2 cases resected in the Democratic Republic of Congo

20233 citationsOpen accessUniversité de Kinshasa (UNIKIN)

Abstract

Surgical resection is the only effective treatment of myxoma. Our first results are encouraging The poor availability of the echocardiography is a challenge in the diagnosis of myxoma. The development of cardiac surgery in DRC and ongoing country-level efforts to address diagnostic challenges for these often silent tumors will allow us to expect more resections to be performed locally and larger series published.

Research topics

  • Cardiac tumors and thrombi
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
  • Coronary Artery Anomalies

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DOI: 10.1186/s13019-023-02286-2

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