Cardiac Fibroma Resulting in Fatal Ventricular Arrhythmia

Cardiac fibroma resulting in fatal ventricular arrhythmia.

Apreviously well and asymptomatic 6-year-old boy collapsed at school. He was initially asystolic but was resuscitated to sinus rhythm. Then, during transport to the hospital, he developed monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (Figure 1). Transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated a huge, homogeneous intramural mass in the left ventricular free wall, possibly also involving the left atrial wall, ...

Intramural Ventricular Cardiac Fibroma

Two cases in which large intramural ventricular cardiac fibromas were successfully removed from children are reported. In one the fibroma was principally septal, and in the other it lay in the free wall of the left ventricle. These are the second and third such operations reported. A review of these two cases plus 34 other reported cases of cardiac fibroma indicates that a primary mural tumor o...

Cardiac sympatho-vagal balance and ventricular arrhythmia☆

A hallmark of cardiovascular disease is cardiac autonomic dysregulation. The phenotype of impaired parasympathetic responsiveness and sympathetic hyperactivity in experimental animal models is also well documented in large scale human studies in the setting of heart failure and myocardial infarction, and is predictive of morbidity and mortality. Despite advances in emergency revascularisation s...

Repetitive Ventricular Arrhythmia Resulting from Artificial Internal Pacemaker.

Fatal ventricular arrhythmia as a complication of transesophageal echocardiography.

AIM To report a case of serious ventricular arrhythmia during transesophageal echocardiography. METHODS AND RESULTS A 58-year-old woman with previous mitral and tricuspid valve replacement and permanent pacemaker implantation suffered from recurrent fever and Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Transesophageal echocardiography was performed as part of the assessment for infective endocarditis. ...