Left ventricular hamartoma associated with ventricular tachycardia
Autor: | Thomas Aretz, Minh H.T Dinh, David F. Torchiana, Joseph M Galvin |
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Rok vydání: | 2001 |
Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Heart disease Hamartoma Heart Ventricles Ventricular tachycardia Asymptomatic Benign tumor Diagnosis Differential Internal medicine medicine Humans business.industry medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging Pathophysiology Surgery Wide complex tachycardia Echocardiography cardiovascular system Cardiology medicine.symptom Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Complication business Cardiomyopathies Endocardium |
Zdroj: | The Annals of thoracic surgery. 71(5) |
ISSN: | 0003-4975 |
Popis: | Cardiac hamartomas are a rare type of benign tumor affecting the heart. We describe a 33-year-old patient who presented with a wide complex tachycardia. Diagnostic imaging revealed a mass in the patient's left ventricular wall, near the apex of the heart. The mass was surgically resected and appeared benign. Its pathology was that of a hamartoma of mature cardiac myocytes. Postoperative electrophysiology evaluation showed no inducible focus and the patient remains alive and asymptomatic after 2 years of follow-up. |
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