Authors Keywords: intracardiac masses, cardiac tumours, myxoma, carcinoid heart disease, thrombi, vegetations Abstract

Cardiac disease can present with various pathologies, most of which pose an interesting anaesthetic challenge. The commonest cardiac diseases in developing countries are rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and hypertensive heart disease.1,2 However, occasionally anaesthetists are faced with rare cardiac disorders such as intracardiac masses.

Author Biography N Manitshana, University of the Witwatersrand

Department of Anaesthesia, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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