Lntraoperative two-dimensional echocardiography allows visualization of cardiac anatomy and function not possible by other techniques. Although preoperative evaluation by noninvasive methods is usually adequate for diagnosis of cardiac tumors, two-dimensional echocardiography can be beneficial intraoperatively. Intraoperative echocardiography provides an accurate evaluation of cardiac anatomy, ...

PURPOSE Fatigue is the most common and distressing symptom reported by cancer patients during and after treatment. Tumor growth increases oxidative stress and cytokine production, which causes skeletal muscle wasting and cardiac dysfunction. The purpose of this study was to determine whether treatment with the antioxidant ubiquinol improves muscle mass, cardiac function, and behavioral measures...

A14-year-old girl with a history of a congenital cardiac tumor presented to our echocardiography laboratory for a routine reexamination. The diagnosis had been made in our laboratory in 1991 on her seventh day of life using an old-generation ultrasound machine (SSH-40A, Toshiba Medical Systems, Tokyo, Japan). The newborn had undergone echocardiographic evaluation because of a systolic murmur. D...

Cardiac rhabdomyoma (CR) is the most common primary cardiac tumor in childhood. Although CRs are asymptomatic in many cases, they may cause arrhythmia, heart failure and fetal hydrops. Babies with arrhythmia in the neonatal period must be investigated for structural heart disease including CR. Cardiac rhabdomyoma may either present as an isolated tumor or may be related with tuberous sclerosis....

Cardiac rhabdomyoma is the most commonest [1] cardiac tumor detected in intrauterine life as well as in early infancy. It constitutes about 70–80 % of all cardiac tumors reported in various clinical series and to 40 % in all autopsy series. It is actually a hamartoma of developing myocytes [2]. Majority of these rhabdomyomas have a benign course and regress spontaneously, however, the clinical ...

Primary cardiac tumors are a rare set of benign and malignant neoplasms found in the heart or pericardium. We describe a patient presenting with nonspecific symptoms and ultimately diagnosed with primary cardiac non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (PCL). Our patient had extensive tumor in the right ventricle, which extended into the right atrium and right ventricular outflow tract. The tumor also encased th...

Contrast echocardiography is based on intravenous injection of microbubbles that act as blood flow tracers and increase ultra-sound signal. Contrast agents have shown to improve cardiac cavities opacification and endocardial border delineation in addition to helping perfusion evaluation. Contrast echocardiography has recently been used to evaluate cardiac masses. In this report we will describe...

Primary pericardial mesothelioma (PPM) is an uncommon variety of primary malignant cardio-pericardial tumor and is a highly lethal and an extremely rare cardiac tumor (1). Its incidence was 0.0022% among 500,000 cases in a large necropsy study (2). It has poor prognosis and a progressive clinical course. Common clinical features are constrictive pericarditis, cardiac tamponade, and cardiac fail...