No  association between herpes simplex virus 1 and cardiac myxoma

DA Berdajs; B Bode; O Dzemali; MY Emmert

doi:10.4414/smw.2011.13223

Original article

Vol. 141 No. 3334 (2011)

No association between herpes simplex virus 1 and cardiac myxoma

DA Berdajs
B Bode
O Dzemali
MY Emmert

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2011.13223
Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2011;141:w13223
Published: 15.08.2011

Summary

PRINCIPLES: Cardiac myxoma is the most commonly diagnosed cardiac tumour. Infection of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV1) has been postulated to be a factor for this pathologic entity. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the association between HSV 1 and myxoma occurrence.

METHODS:Between 1965 and 2005, 70 patients (36 female, mean age: 52.6 years) underwent a resection of myxoma. Selected variables such as hospital mortality and morbidity were studied. A follow-up (FU; mean FU time: 138 ± 83 months) was obtained (76% complete). Immunohistological studies with monoclonal antibodies against HSV type 1 were performed on tumour biopsies of 40 patients.

RESULTS: The mean age was 53 ± 16 years (range 23 to 84 years, 51% female). Of the investigated population, 31 (44%) were in New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III-IV. Mitral valve stenosis was identified in 14 patients (20%), and in 25 (36%) patients mitral valve was insufficient.

During hospitalisation 3 patients suffered from a transient neurological disorder, and in addition to myxoma resection 18 (25.7%) patients had to undergo an additional intervention. The overall survival rate was 91% at 40 years. There was no early postoperative mortality in follow-up, although 4 patients died and 2 patients had been re-operated on for recurrent myxomas after 2 and 9 years. Immunohistology revealed no positive signals for HSV-1 antigens among the 40 analysed cases.

CONCLUSION: Complete surgical resection, septum included, was the treatment of choice and mandatory to prevent relapse. Peri-operative morbidity and mortality over 40 years remained low, and no association between HSV infection and occurrence of cardiac myxoma was found.

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[2] Prichard RW. Tumors of the heart: review of the subject and report of one hundred and fifty cases. Arch Pathol. 1951;51:98–128.

[3] Chakfe N, Kretz JG, Valentin P. Clinical presentation and treatment options for mitral valve myxoma. Ann Thorac Surg. 1997;64:872–7.

[4] Li Y, Pan Z, Ji Y. Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infection Associated with Atrial Myxoma. American Journal of Pathology. 2003;163(6):2407–12.

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[6] Keeling I, Oberwalder PJ, Schuchlenz H. Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction due to valve myxoma. Ann Thorac Surg. 2000;69:1591–2.

[7] Lappe DL, Bulkley BH, Weiss JL. Two-dimensional echocar- diographic diagnosis of left atrial myxoma. Chest. 1978;74:55–8.

[8] Acits Dato GM, De Benedictis M, Actis Dato A Jr. Long-term follow-up of cardiac myxomas (7–31 years). J Cardiovasc Surg. 1993;34:141–3.

[9] Bhan A, Mehrotra R, Choudhary SK. Surgical experiences with intracardiac myxomas:long-term follow up. Ann Thorac Surg. 1998;66(3):810–3.

[10] Murphy MC, Sweeney MS, Putnam JB Jr. Surgical treatment of cardiac tumors: a 25-year experience. Ann Thorac Surg. 1990;49:612–8.

[11] Wilkes D, McDermott D, Basson CT. Clinical phenotypes and molecular genetic mechanisms of Carney complex. 2005;6:501–8

[12] Carney JA. Differences between nonfamilial and familial cardiac myxoma. Am J Surg Pathol. 1985;9:53–5.

[13] Stratakis CA, Carney JA, Lin JP, Papanicolaou DA, Karl M, Kastner DL, et al. Carney complex, a familial multiple neoplasia and lentiginosis syndrome. Analysis of 11 kindreds and linkage to the short arm of chromosome 2. J Clin Invest. 1996;97:699–705.

[14] Casey M, Vaughan JH, Hatcher CJ, Winter JM, Weremowicz S, Montgomery K, et al. Mutations in the protein kinase A R1 regulatory subunit cause familial cardiac myxomas and Carney complex. J Clin Invest. 2000;106:R31–R38.

[15] Pinede L, Duhaut P, Loire R Clinical presentation of left atrial cardiac myxoma. A series of 112 consecutive cases. Medicine. (Baltimore) 2001;80:159–72.

[16] Chu PH, Jung SM, Yeh TS, Lin HC, Chu JJ. MUC1, MUC2 and MUC5AC expressions in cardiac myxoma Virchows Arch. 2005;446(1):52–5. Epub 2004 Nov 26.

[17] Smit SJ, Robinson NJ. Age-Specific Prevalence of Infection with Herpes Simplex Virus Types 2 and 1: A Global Review. J Infect Dis. 2002;186:S3–S28.