We present a case report of a 60-year-old woman with a long history of leiomyosarcoma in different locations. She was admitted to the clinic due to a left ventricular tumor diagnosed in ECHO examination. The patient was qualified for radical tumor resection. The early postoperative period was complicated due to low cardiac output syndrome and bradyarrhythmia requiring temporary cardiac pacing. ...

BACKGROUND Cardiac tumors are rare, mostly benign with high embolic potential. OBJECTIVES To correlate the histological type of cardiac masses with their embolic potential, implantation site and long term follow up in patients undergoing surgery. METHODS Between January 1986 and December 2011, we retrospectively analyzed 185 consecutive patients who underwent excision of intracardiac mass (...

Primary cardiac tumors are histologically heterogeneous and grow from the heart tissues. Their diagnosis is difficult due to absence of pathognomonic signs, as well possibility a long asymptomatic course. The authors present case late tumor in young man, occurring under guise constrictive pericarditis with rapidly progressive failure, which ended death 3 months after first clinical symptoms. Ac...

Fetal cardiac tumors are rare conditions and their incidence ranges from 0.08% to 0.2%[1]. However, this percentage during fetal life may be underestimated, given that regression commonly occurs. It should also be noted that atrial tumors may be small or, when located in the septum or ventricular cavity, often mimic an echogenic focus (golf ball sign), thus leading to difficulty in recognizing ...

BACKGROUND Primary pericardial tumors have a prevalence of between 6.7% and 12.8% of all tumors arising in the cardiac region. Pericardial schwannoma is a rare entity. It arises from the cardiac plexus and vagus nerve innervating the heart. Most of the reported cases, have presented with benign behavior, however, in rare situations, they can undergo transformation to malignant behavior When com...

1Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany; 2Department of Clinical Radiology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany; 3European Institute for Molecular Imaging, University of Münster, Münster, Germany; 4Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Münster, Münster, Germany; 5Institute for Pathology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany; and...

An abnormal fetal heart rhythm was auscultated on routine examination in a 33-year-old mother whose past medical history was unremarkable. A first echocardiogram at 22.512 weeks noted a thickened nuchal fold and a mild to moderate amount of pleural effusion and ascites. The fetus was found to have a slow heart rate of 110 bpm and episodes of bigeminy. Several echogenic masses were noted (Figure...

ABSTRACT Sarcomas are the most malignant tumors in the myocardium. Most common sarcoma is theangiosarcoma, classically located in the right atrium. Surgical resection is the primary treatmentof choice for these patients. In July 2003, an 18 years old man with chest pain and dyspnea,referred to the Imam Khomeini Hospital. Chest X-ray showed cardiac enlargement andtransthoracic echocardiography d...

BACKGROUND Cardiac tumors which may induce sudden death are rare entities with an autopsy frequency of 0.001-0.030 %. This study aims to analyze the characteristics and outcome of pediatric patients with primary cardiac tumors treated in our center. METHODS Sixteen patients with primary cardiac tumors treated at our center between January 2000 and December 2014 were included into this retrosp...

Primary cardiac sarcomas are rare. In such tumors, surgical resection is sometimes considered necessary to correct obstruction of flow caused by the tumor and to accomplish complete resection. The anatomic difficulties associated with large, primary, intracavitary left-sided sarcomas have led us to use cardiac explantation, ex vivo tumor resection, and cardiac autotransplantation to meet the an...