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- Title
An unusual marrow transplant complication: cardiac myxoma.
- Authors
Baronciani, D.; Angelucci, E.; Polchi, P.; Martinelli, F.; Mariotti, E.; Marzocchi, A.; Longo, M.; Poggi, S.; Pileri, S.; Lucarelli, G.
- Abstract
We report a right atrial myxoma which suddenly developed in a thalassemic patient after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. The tumor was first detected by echocardiography on day +47 after transplant and the patient underwent surgical removal of the myxoma on day +103. The post-operative course was uneventful, and at more than 3 years from the event, he is alive and well, cured from his congenital disease, with no detectable intra-cardiac tumor. The onset of the myxoma in the early post-transplant period and the extremely high velocity of growth suggest a possible relationship of this condition with the immunosuppressive status.
- Subjects
BONE marrow transplant complications; MYXOMA; THALASSEMIA
- Publication
Bone Marrow Transplantation, 1998, Vol 21, Issue 8, p825
- ISSN
0268-3369
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/sj.bmt.1701183