Pentalogy of Fallot and cardiac paraganglioma: a case report

Primary cardiac tumors are rare. Of these the majorities are benign and about 75% are atrial myxomas. One of the rarest tumors affecting the heart is a cardiac paraganglioma. We report an unusual case of a left ventricular paraganglioma discovered during autopsy in a 22-year female patient, a case o...

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Autores principales: Gabhane, Sushma Kashinath, Gangane, Nitin M, Sinha, Riti T
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20066070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9392
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description Primary cardiac tumors are rare. Of these the majorities are benign and about 75% are atrial myxomas. One of the rarest tumors affecting the heart is a cardiac paraganglioma. We report an unusual case of a left ventricular paraganglioma discovered during autopsy in a 22-year female patient, a case of sudden death. This patient also had coexistent Pentalogy of Fallots along with transposition of pulmonary trunk to the left ventricle, a very rare congenital cyanotic heart disease. Chronic hypoxia due to congenital cyanotic heart disease is supposed to be the cause of development of paraganglioma in heart in these patients.
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spelling pubmed-28047342010-01-12 Pentalogy of Fallot and cardiac paraganglioma: a case report Gabhane, Sushma Kashinath Gangane, Nitin M Sinha, Riti T Cases J Case Report Primary cardiac tumors are rare. Of these the majorities are benign and about 75% are atrial myxomas. One of the rarest tumors affecting the heart is a cardiac paraganglioma. We report an unusual case of a left ventricular paraganglioma discovered during autopsy in a 22-year female patient, a case of sudden death. This patient also had coexistent Pentalogy of Fallots along with transposition of pulmonary trunk to the left ventricle, a very rare congenital cyanotic heart disease. Chronic hypoxia due to congenital cyanotic heart disease is supposed to be the cause of development of paraganglioma in heart in these patients. BioMed Central 2009-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2804734/ /pubmed/20066070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9392 Text en Copyright ©2009 Gabhane et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pentalogy of Fallot and cardiac paraganglioma: a case report
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title_full Pentalogy of Fallot and cardiac paraganglioma: a case report
title_fullStr Pentalogy of Fallot and cardiac paraganglioma: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Pentalogy of Fallot and cardiac paraganglioma: a case report
title_short Pentalogy of Fallot and cardiac paraganglioma: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20066070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9392
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