Right ventricular myxoma obstructing the right ventricular outflow tract: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Primary cardiac tumors are uncommon during infancy and childhood. Myxomas originating from the right ventricle are even less common in pediatric patients. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we describe a case of an 11-year-old Tunisian boy who was referred for syncope. Transthoracic echocardiogra...

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Autores principales: Gribaa, Rym, Slim, Mehdi, Kortas, Chokri, Kacem, Slim, Salem, Helmi Ben, Ouali, Sana, Neffati, Elies, Remadi, Fehmi, Boughzela, Essia
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4301803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25515693
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-435
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author Gribaa, Rym
Slim, Mehdi
Kortas, Chokri
Kacem, Slim
Salem, Helmi Ben
Ouali, Sana
Neffati, Elies
Remadi, Fehmi
Boughzela, Essia
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Slim, Mehdi
Kortas, Chokri
Kacem, Slim
Salem, Helmi Ben
Ouali, Sana
Neffati, Elies
Remadi, Fehmi
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description INTRODUCTION: Primary cardiac tumors are uncommon during infancy and childhood. Myxomas originating from the right ventricle are even less common in pediatric patients. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we describe a case of an 11-year-old Tunisian boy who was referred for syncope. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a large mobile mass attached to his right ventricle, obstructing his right ventricular outflow tract. Complete surgical excision of the mass with preservation of the pulmonary valve was performed. The diagnosis of myxoma was histologically confirmed. CONCLUSION: Cardiac myxomas located in the right ventricular outflow tract are rare and can present unusual diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.
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spelling pubmed-43018032015-01-22 Right ventricular myxoma obstructing the right ventricular outflow tract: a case report Gribaa, Rym Slim, Mehdi Kortas, Chokri Kacem, Slim Salem, Helmi Ben Ouali, Sana Neffati, Elies Remadi, Fehmi Boughzela, Essia J Med Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Primary cardiac tumors are uncommon during infancy and childhood. Myxomas originating from the right ventricle are even less common in pediatric patients. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we describe a case of an 11-year-old Tunisian boy who was referred for syncope. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a large mobile mass attached to his right ventricle, obstructing his right ventricular outflow tract. Complete surgical excision of the mass with preservation of the pulmonary valve was performed. The diagnosis of myxoma was histologically confirmed. CONCLUSION: Cardiac myxomas located in the right ventricular outflow tract are rare and can present unusual diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. BioMed Central 2014-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4301803/ /pubmed/25515693 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-435 Text en © Gribaa et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Salem, Helmi Ben
Ouali, Sana
Neffati, Elies
Remadi, Fehmi
Boughzela, Essia
Right ventricular myxoma obstructing the right ventricular outflow tract: a case report
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title_full Right ventricular myxoma obstructing the right ventricular outflow tract: a case report
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title_short Right ventricular myxoma obstructing the right ventricular outflow tract: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4301803/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-8-435
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