PMID- 8782928
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19961209
LR  - 20191024
IS  - 0967-2109 (Print)
IS  - 0967-2109 (Linking)
VI  - 4
IP  - 3
DP  - 1996 Jun
TI  - The relationship between functional class, pulmonary artery pressure and size in 
      left atrial myxoma.
PG  - 320-3
AB  - To examine the correlation between the size of left atrial myxoma, the degree of 
      pulmonary hypertension and the patient's New York Heart Association (NYHA) 
      functional class, the records of 29 surgically treated patients with left atrial 
      myxoma were reviewed. Of 29 patients, 23 were catheterized before surgery. As the 
      preoperative NYHA functional class advanced, the preoperative mean pulmonary 
      artery pressure (mmHg) was seen to increase. Moreover, the weight of the excised 
      myxoma also correlated well with the preoperative pulmonary artery pressure 
      value. In five patients inserted with a Swan-Ganz catheter, the mean pulmonary 
      artery pressure decreased immediately after tumour excision. Postoperatively, the 
      average NYHA class of the 29 patients significantly improved. These results 
      confirmed the positive correlation between the size of the tumour, the pulmonary 
      artery pressure, and NYHA class in patients with left atrial myxoma.
FAU - Nakano, T
AU  - Nakano T
AD  - Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 
      Fukuoka, Japan.
FAU - Mayumi, H
AU  - Mayumi H
FAU - Hisahara, M
AU  - Hisahara M
FAU - Yasui, H
AU  - Yasui H
FAU - Tokunaga, K
AU  - Tokunaga K
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Cardiovasc Surg
JT  - Cardiovascular surgery (London, England)
JID - 9308765
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Cardiac Catheterization
MH  - Female
MH  - Heart Atria/pathology/*physiopathology/surgery
MH  - Heart Neoplasms/pathology/*physiopathology/surgery
MH  - Hemodynamics/*physiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Hypertension, Pulmonary/pathology/*physiopathology/surgery
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Myxoma/pathology/*physiopathology/surgery
MH  - Postoperative Complications/physiopathology
MH  - Pulmonary Wedge Pressure/physiology
EDAT- 1996/06/01 00:00
MHDA- 1996/06/01 00:01
CRDT- 1996/06/01 00:00
PHST- 1996/06/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1996/06/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1996/06/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 0967210995000909 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/0967-2109(95)00090-9 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Cardiovasc Surg. 1996 Jun;4(3):320-3. doi: 10.1016/0967-2109(95)00090-9.