PRIMARY TUMORS OF THE HEART

The work analyses the anatomomorphological characteristics of primary tumors of the heart in 106 patients; in 101 patients the tumor was ben ing (myxoma, neurinoma, rhabdomyoma) and in 5 malignant (angiosarcoma, liposarcoma). Surgical treatment was conducted in 99 patients; hospit al lethality was 7.1 %. Six patients who refused an operation died at other therapeutic institutions, one patient died on admission to the c linic from occlusion of the left atrioventricular orifice by the tumor . It is pointed out that the diversity and the various degree of the c linical manifestations of the disease are predetermined by the localiz ation and morphological characteristics of the new growths, their size , and mobility. The authors emphasize that knowledge of the anatomomor phological features of primary tumors of the heart and their early dia gnosis are conducive to a differential approach in each concrete situa tion and to the choice of the optimal volume of an urgent surgical int ervention.