Injury to the tricuspid valve and membranous atrioventricular septum, caused by huge calcified right ventricular myxoma - Report of a case

Circulation Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 799-801

  Hirota, Jun ^a,b   Akiyama, Kazuya ^a   Taniyasu, Naohito ^a   Maisawa, Kazuma ^a   Kobayashi, Yutaka ^a   Sakamoto, Nobuo ^a   Komatsu, Nobuo ^a  

^a Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital   (Japan)

^b Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Right ventricular myxoma; Tricuspid valve regurgitation; Ventricular septal defect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANNULOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CHORDOPLASTY; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CYCLE; HEART MYXOMA; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE MYXOMA; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VALVULOPLASTY;

CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 3843136039     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.68.799     Document Type: Article

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