%0 Journal Article
%T Primary Cardiac Tumors Operated on in Côte d¡¯Ivoire: They Are Almost All Myxomas
%A Yoboua Aim¨¦ Kirioua-Kamenan
%A Jean Calaire Degr¨¦
%A Koutoua Eric Katch¨¦ Katch¨¦
%A Kouassi Antonin Souaga
%A Kwadjau Anderson Amani
%A Assoumou Lucien Asseke
%A Ibrahim Junior Yeo
%A Landry Kohou-Kone
%A Kouassi Flavien Kendja
%J World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
%P 93-99
%@ 2164-3210
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/wjcs.2023.135009
%X Objective: Through this surgical series, we present the epidemiological and anatomical-clinical
aspects and the surgical results concerning patients operated on for a primary cardiac
tumor at the Abidjan Heart Institute. Materials
and Method: This is a retrospective descriptive
study covering the period of January 1982 to December 2022, based on the medical
records of patients operated on for a primary cardiac tumor at the Abidjan Heart
Institute. Results: Twenty-seven (27) patients underwent surgery for a primary cardiac tumor,
including 14 women and 13 men with a mean age of 41.5 years (range 19 - 76 years). The main circumstances of discovery were exertional
dyspnea, palpitation and syncope or pseudo-syncope. The main site was the septal
wall of the left atrium. The diagnosis of myxoma was confirmed by pathological examination
of the surgical specimen in 96.3% (n = 24) of the
patients and it was a malignant large cell immunoblastic lymphoma of the myocardium
in 3.7% (n = 1) of the patients. The mean
largest diameter was 46.1 mm. The
postoperative course was marked by an ischaemic stroke (n = 1); recurrence of a left atrial myxoma 5 years after
the first tumor removal (n = 1).
%K Cardiac Myxomas
%K Primary Cardiac Tumors
%K Tumor Removal
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=125150