Right atrial mass after open heart surgery: tumour or thrombus?

Detection of a rapidly growing mass in the right atrium during routine inter-echocardiogram follow-up period in two patients after corrective open-heart surgery raises concerns about nature of the mass and the probable cause. One turned out to be an atrial myxoma that grew rapidly over a eight month period and the other a well encapsulate thrombus in a fully anticoagulated patient. Preoperative transthoracic echocardiogram had reported both the cases to be a myxoma.

Surgical repair of congenital diaphragmatic eventration in a septugerian lady.

Congenital diaphragmatic eventration in an elderly is a rare anomaly. We describe a case of congenital diaphragmatic eventration causing respiratory insufficiency in a 72 year lady who underwent successful surgical repair.