[Cardiac myxoma. A report of 23 cases].

Twenty-three cases of cardiac myxoma are reviewed during a period of 11 years. Seventeen patients were females and 6 males with an average age of 36 years. All patients were symptomatic for an average period of time of 4 months.

Ventricular tachycardia as a first manifestation of right ventricular myxoma--a case presentation.

The authors present a case of a thirty-nine-year-old white man in good health who developed episodes of ventricular tachycardia as a first manifestation of a right ventricular myxoma, which was diagnosed by two-dimensional echocardiogram and then resected with no complications and total disappearance of the cardiac arrhythmia. After reviewing the literature they consider the present case as a rare manifestation of an infrequent location of an uncommon disease.