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A Japanese case of familial cardiac myxoma associated with a mutation of the PRKAR1alpha gene.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jun 2005
Kojima Satoshi, Sumiyoshi Masataka, Watanabe Yoshiro, Suwa Satoru, Matsumoto Michio, Nakata Yasuro, Daida Hiroyuki
Abstract excerpt
Familial cardiac myxoma is inherited as an autosomal dominant syndrome. Here, we report a Japanese case of familial cardiac myxoma identified as a genetic abnormality. The mother experienced multiple recurrence of tumors in the left atrium and left ventricle 40 months after surgical resection of a left atrial myxoma. All recurrent tumors were successfully resected. Her daughter also had a solitary myxoma in the...
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