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Archivos de cardiología de México
On-line version ISSN 1665-1731Print version ISSN 1405-9940
Abstract
HERNANDEZ-BRINGAS, Omar and ORTIZ-HIDALGO, Carlos. Histopathological and immunohistochemical features of cardiac myxomas. Arch. Cardiol. Méx. [online]. 2013, vol.83, n.3, pp.199-208. ISSN 1665-1731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acmx.2013.02.002.
Mixomas are the most common primary cardiac tumors with an estimate incidence of 0,5-1 per 106 individuals per year. These tumors have generated interest due to their unique location (left side of the atrial septum near the fossa ovalis), variable clinical presentation and undefined histogenesis. Most cardiac myxomas occur sporadically while approximately 10% of diagnosed cases develop as part of Carney complex. This neoplasm is of uncertain histogenesis, however, endothelial, neurogenic, fibroblastic, and cardiac and smooth muscle cells differentiation has been proposed, and rarely glandular differentiation has been observed. Recently, due to the expression of certain cardiomyocyte-specific factors, an origin of mesenchymal cardiomyocytes progenitor cells has been suggested. Histologically cardiac myxomas are mainly composed of stellated, fusiform and polygonal cells, immersed in an amorphous myxoid matrix. Immunohistochemically some endothelial markers, such as CD31, CD34, FVIIIAg, are present. Positive staining has also been reported for S-100 protein, calretinin, vimentin, desmin, smooth muscle myosin, CD56, α1 antitrypsin and α 1 antichymotrypsin. Surgical resection is currently the only treatment of choice. We present in this article a histopathological and immunohistochemical review of cardiac myxomas.
Keywords : Myxomas; Cardiac; Immunohistochemistry; Histogenesis; Mexico.