Successful surgical treatment for recurrent cardiac fibroma 21 years after resection

Cardiac fibromas are rare benign tumors usually seen in the pediatric population. Generally, long-term survival after surgical resection is favorable, and recurrence of fibroma has been hardly reported. Herein, we report a case of a 34-year-old woman who presented with ventricular tachycardia 21 yea...

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Autores principales: Kusajima, Kunio, Hata, Hiroki, Fujita, Tomoyuki, Shimahara, Yusuke, Sato, Shunsuke, Ishibashi-Ueda, Hatsue, Kobayashi, Junjiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4747971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26943406
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-015-0043-3
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Sumario:Cardiac fibromas are rare benign tumors usually seen in the pediatric population. Generally, long-term survival after surgical resection is favorable, and recurrence of fibroma has been hardly reported. Herein, we report a case of a 34-year-old woman who presented with ventricular tachycardia 21 years after resection of a cardiac fibroma and was found to have a recurrent giant cardiac fibroma. We performed a complete resection of the recurrent fibroma. At the 2-year follow-up, she remains asymptomatic with no evidence of ventricular tachycardia or recurrence of fibroma.

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