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An unusual marrow transplant complication: cardiac myxoma

Bone Marrow Transplantation volume 21, pages 825–827 (1998)Cite this article

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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.

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  1. Divisione Ematologica e Centro Trapianto di Midollo Osseo di Muraglia, Italy

    D Baronciani, E Angelucci, P Polchi & G Lucarelli

  2. Servizio di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Azienda Ospedale di Pesaro, Pesaro, Italy

    F Martinelli

  3. Divisione Cardiologia, Azienda Ospedale di Pesaro, Pesaro, Italy

    E Mariotti

  4. Istituto Cardiologia, Universita′ di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    A Marzocchi

  5. Istituto Chirurgia Cardiovascolare, Universita′ di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    M Longo

  6. Sezione di Emolinfopatologia, Istituto di Ematologia, Universita′ di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    S Poggi & S Pileri

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Baronciani, D., Angelucci, E., Polchi, P. et al. An unusual marrow transplant complication: cardiac myxoma. Bone Marrow Transplant 21, 825–827 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1701183

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