Research Article

Surgical Treatment of Primary Intracardiac Myxoma: 20-Year Experience in “Shahid Modarres Hospital”—A Tertiary University Hospital—Tehran, Iran

Table 1

Preoperative patients’ information from 1994 to 2014 diagnosed with myxoma in Shahid Modarres Hospital.

Presentation (1994–2014)Parameter%

GenderMale17 (40.4%)
Female25 (59.6%)

Mean age50.6 ± 17
Range13–76

Age10–19 years1 (2.4 %)
20–29 years3 (7.1%)
30–39 years5 (11.9%)
40–49 years6 (14.2%)
50–59 years15 (35.7%)
60–69 years9 (21.6%)
70–80 years3 (7.1%)

Diagnostic methodTTE + TEE + Angio4 (9.5%)
TTE + Angio14 (33.3%)
TTE + TEE1 (2.4%)
TTE22 (52.4%)
TTE + Angio + CT1 (2.4%)

Functional classFunctional class I6 (14.2%)
Functional class II17 (40.6%)
Functional class III14 (33.3%)
Functional class IV4 (9.5%)
Unknown1 (2.4%)

TTE: transthoracic echocardiography; TEE: transoesophageal echocardiography; Angio: angiography; CT: computed tomography.