Myxoma detected by intracardiac echocardiography during pulmonary vein isolation

Tsukasa Oshima, MD, PhD¹, Yu Shimizu, MD, PhD¹, Takayuki Gyoten, MD, PhD², Koki Nakanishi, MD, PhD¹, Katsuhito Fujiu, MD, PhD^1,3, Norifumi Takeda, MD, PhD¹, Issei Komuro, MD, PhD¹

¹Department of Cardiovascular Medicine,²Department of cardiovascular Surgery, and³Department of Advanced Cardiology, the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine.

Correspondence should be addressed to

Yu Shimizu

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1- Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan.

Phone: +81-3-3815-5411

Fax: +81-3-3818-6673

e-mail: yushimizu-tky@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Key words: myxoma, thrombus, pulmonary vein isolation, atrial fibrillation, intracardiac echocardiography

The study conformed to the Declaration of Helsinki and was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of The University of Tokyo (No. 2650).

Myxoma detected by intracardiac echocardiography during pulmonary vein isolation