Cardiac Hemangioma of RVOT in a Patient with Atypical Chest Pain

A 40-year-old man presented with atypical chest pain and fatigue from 15 days ago a suspicious mass in the right ventricle based on a bed side transthoracic echocardiography. Preoperative diagnosis of a cardiac hemangioma comes to mind in a minority of cases. In our case, a cardiac tumor was diagnos...

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Autores principales: Vakili, Hossein, Khaheshi, Isa, Foroughi, Mahnoosh, Ghaderi, Hamid, Esmaeeli, Shooka, Jafari, Mostafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4119648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25110477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/285479
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Sumario:A 40-year-old man presented with atypical chest pain and fatigue from 15 days ago a suspicious mass in the right ventricle based on a bed side transthoracic echocardiography. Preoperative diagnosis of a cardiac hemangioma comes to mind in a minority of cases. In our case, a cardiac tumor was diagnosed and the vascular nature of the tumor was suggested by vascular blush on the coronary angiography. In addition, right ventriculotomy was the approach of choice in our case because of its inaccessibility and its particular location.

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