SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A study carried out by the Cardiac Surgery service of the University Hospital Complex of the Canary Islands has been awarded the Dionisio Daza y Chacón Prize in recognition of the best work published in the Spanish Journal of Surgical Research in 2022.
Specifically, the Cardiac Surgery Service of the HUC, attached to the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, reviewed cases of cardiac masses and the experience in cardiac tumors of the last 37 years and with the experience of eight thousand interventions with extracorporeal circulation performed in the hospital.
The award-winning work concludes that among the cardiac masses analyzed at the HUC are anatomical variants of normality, extracardiac structures, iatrogenic or foreign material, vegetations, myocardial hydatid cysts, thrombi in different cavities, pericardial tumors, and cardiac tumors, the most common being Myxomas are more common.
The authors of the study retrospectively analyzed the series of these most frequent cardiac tumors. 83 myxomas (the most common primary cardiac tumor in adults) were operated on at this hospital from March 1984 to December 2021, an average of two cases per year, in patients with a mean age of 49 years in men (40 cases) and 50 years in women (60 cases). Most of them, in 77 of the 83, were in the left atrium.
A review of some less frequent tumors has also been made.
The conclusions indicate that although benign cardiac tumors are benign histologically, clinically they may not be if they cause mortality or serious damage. For this reason, the small surgical risk justifies the intervention given the risk of not doing so.
