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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0001-6002</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Acta Médica Costarricense]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Acta méd. costarric]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0001-6002</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos de Costa Rica]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S0001-60022017000300120</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Manejo quirúrgico del mixoma cardíaco]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Surgical management of cardiac myxoma]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Madrigal-Jiménez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Sofía]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Robelo-Pentzke]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Bayardo]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Medicina General  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social Hospital &#8220;Dr. Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia Servicio Cirugía de Tórax y Cardiovascular]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>59</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>120</fpage>
<lpage>122</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0001-60022017000300120&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0001-60022017000300120&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0001-60022017000300120&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Se presenta el caso de una paciente de 32 años, con trastorno psiquiátrico, con historia de un mes de evolución de disnea y tos no productiva, tratada inicialmente como bronconeumonía, con amplia cobertura antibiótica sin mejoría de síntomas; se maneja luego como síndrome de dificultad respiratoria aguda. Debido a franco ataque al estado general y datos incongruentes con historia clínica, se realiza ecocardiograma que incidentalmente reporta mixoma en aurícula izquierda. Los mixomas cardíacos son el tipo más común de tumores primarios benignos cardíacos, una patología poco frecuente y con mortalidad asociada a muerte súbita en un 15%. La mayoría de casos son encuentros incidentales, esporádicos y su etiología no es conocida. Los síntomas pueden asociarse a embolismo del tumor, insuficiencia cardiaca, obstrucción mecánica valvular y síntomas constitucionales varios.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract We present the case of a 32 year old patient known to have a psychiatric disorder, who presented with a history of one month of dyspnoea and nonproductive cough, which was treated initially as bronchopneumonia, with wide spectrum antibiotics without clinical improvement. Later is treated as an acute pulmonary distress syndrome, but because of poor general condition and incongruent data in the clinical history an echocardiogram was performed in the Emergency Room that incidentally founds a myxoma in the left atrium. Cardiac myxomas are the most common primary heart benign tumors, and have a mortality rate associated with sudden death of 15%. In the majority of the cases the diagnosis is incidental, sporadic and the etiology is unknown. The symptoms may be associated with tumor embolism, heart failure, valvular disease and nonspecific symptoms.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[mixoma cardiaco]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[tumor benigno]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[shock obstructivo]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[cardiac myxoma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[shock]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[cardiac surgery]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
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