Research Article

Detection of Herplex Simplex Virus-1 and -2 in Cardiac Myxomas

Table 1

Characteristics of the myxoma patients (all and informative cases) and the normal controls; no statistical significance was observed in baseline characteristics between groups.

CharacteristicsMyxoma patients
𝑁 = 2 9
Normal controls 𝑁 = 1 9 Informative myxomas 𝑁 = 1 7

Age ( m e a n ± S D ) years 5 8 ± 1 3 6 1 ± 1 8 5 7 ± 1 4
Female n (%)25 (86.2)16 (84.2)14 (82.4)