[Primary delayed growth of the right and left atrial myxoma]. / Pervichno otsrochennyi vo vremeni rost miksom pravogo i levogo predserdii.

There is more than 58-year experience of surgical treatment of patients with intracardiac myxomas at the Petrovsky National Research Center of Surgery. Primary delayed growth of the right and left atrial myxoma after 21 years and 5 months was observed only in 1 (0.36%) patient. Transthoracic echocardiography was used for diagnosis of tumors. Tumors were totally resected including adjacent parts of myocardium or subendocardial tissue with subsequent cautery. In-hospital mortality was absent. There were no recurrent myxomas throughout subsequent 10-year follow-up.

[Diagnostics and surgical tactics for papillary fibroelastomas of the heart]. / Diagnostika i khirurgicheskaya taktika pri papillyarnykh fibroelastomakh serdtsa.

AIM: To investigate clinical, diagnostic and surgical aspects of papillary fibroelastomas of the heart. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Clinical, diagnostic and surgical aspects of papillary fibroelastomas of the heart were analyzed in 12 patients. RESULTS: Diagnosis was obtained using two-dimensional echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography or computed tomography. Surgical treatment involved isolated excision of the tumor or combined with valve repair or replacement in case of valvular involvement. Hospital mortality was absent. CONCLUSION: Successful surgical treatment implies urgency, optimal exposition under hypothermic perfusion and pharmaco-cold cardioplegia, simple excision of the tumors and correction of comorbidities if it is necessary.