Surgeons at Kabul’s Shahid Sardar Mohammad Daoud Khan hospital have successfully carried out complex heart surgery on a patient to remove a cardiac myxoma tumor.
Hospital officials said a team of cardiologists and thoracic surgeons removed the tumor from the right atrium of the patient’s heart.
The hospital said the patient’s condition is stable and that the person is recovering.
A cardiac myxoma is the most common primary heart tumor in adults.
It usually forms in the left atrium but can occur in the right atrium.
Myxomas aren’t cancerous, but they can still be life-threatening if they interfere with a person’s heart function.