Survival of a patient with an infected right atrial myxoma following surgery

Abstract

We describe an infected right atrial myxoma in a previously healthy 16-year-old schoolboy. He presented with high temperatures and rigors due to staph aureus septicaemia. The illness responded slowly to antibiotics and he became afebrile. Whilst awaiting surgery the temperature recurred. He underwent removal of the myxoma and is the only reported patient to have survived infection of a right atrial myxoma.