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The authors describe the case of a 52-year-old patient with several hospitalizations due to acute pulmonary edema, clarified only during the performance of cardiac surgery for the correction of presumable mitral valvular pathology. A leiomiossarcome of the left auricle was concerned, which involved the posterior ring of the mitral valve, the interauricular septum and the orifices of the pulmonary veins. Due to the impossibility of proceeding with the complete resection of the tumor, the tumoral mass was wasted away in order to liberate the involved structures, this followed by chemotherapy. Two years since, the patient shows a generally deteriorated state, submitted to various hospitalizations due to cardiac insufficiency, having been objectivated hepatic metastization and recurrence of the primary neoplasm.
Rev Port Cardiol 1991 Mar
PMID:[Primary heart tumors. Report of a clinical case]. 185 18

Supraventricular or ventricular ectopy has been reported in association with cardiac fibroma. We report two patients, one with acquired complete heart block and one with mixed ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias associated with this rare tumor of the heart.
Pediatr Cardiol 1991 Apr
PMID:Cardiac fibroma presenting with clinically significant arrhythmias in infancy. 186 31

A case of primary cardiac tumor with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLH) is presented. Sonographic examination at 32 weeks' gestation revealed a large tumor in the left ventricle of the fetal heart. The newborn died of congestive heart failure at 11 days of age. Autopsy demonstrated a large tumor in the left ventricle obliterating most of the left ventricular cavity, aortic atresia, and hypoplastic ascending aorta. Microscopically, the cardiac tumor showed "spider-cells" characteristics of rhabdomyoma.
Pediatr Cardiol 1991 Apr
PMID:Hypoplastic left heart syndrome with rhabdomyoma of the left ventricle. 186 32

The authors report a case of a patient presenting atypical dyspnea symptom. The physical examination, the chest roentgenogram and EKG were abnormal; the echocardiogram showed an abnormal mass compressing the outflow tract of the right ventricle (RV). These data were confirmed by a computerized tomography. The cardiac catheterization showed a heart deviation to the left and a RV outflow tract gradient of 10 mmHg. Consequently a surgery was necessary. The surgical findings presented an absence of the left pericardium and no tumor was found. This is a rare entity that may be misdiagnosed as other heart diseases but this is the first case in which a tumor of the anterior mediastinum was suspected.
Arq Bras Cardiol 1991 Jan
PMID:[Congenital absence of left pericardium simulating tumor of the anterior mediastinum]. 187 13

Case report of primary hyperaldosteronism in a 43 year-old man, with 2 years history of hypertension and cardiovascular involvement manifested by "angina pectoris", ventricular arrhythmia and hypokalemia. The CT scan showed a left adrenal gland adenoma. The patient underwent a surgery for tumor removal, and became asymptomatic during a follow-up period of 11 months.
Arq Bras Cardiol 1991 Feb
PMID:[Primary hyperaldosteronism with angina and arrhythmia]. 187 26

A 27 year-old female patient presented with atypical chest pain. 2-D echocardiogram and thorax computed tomography revealed intrapericardial tumor. The patient was operated on for removal of the tumor, which turned out to be two isolated lipomas. The patient had a rapid postoperative recuperation.
Arq Bras Cardiol 1991 Apr
PMID:[Intrapericardial lipoma]. 188 5

Cardiac metastases are the most common cause of neoplastic disease of the heart. Usually the metastases involve the pericardium and/or myocardium but rarely they form intracavitary masses. We report a patient with a lung cancer and solitary left atrial intracardiac metastases. General features of cardiac metastases and the differential diagnosis of left intra-atrial masses are discussed.
Rev Esp Cardiol
PMID:[A solitary intracardiac metastasis in the left atrium from a pulmonary carcinoma]. 192 59

The authors describe the color flow pattern in a patient with right ventricle myxoma and outflow obstruction. A systolic eccentric mosaic color jet, flowing in a thin space between the tumor and the right ventricle outlet wall, was observed. The color Doppler imaging easily detected flow abnormalities, greatly simplified the correct alignment of continuous wave Doppler beam in the estimation of the pressure gradient and allowed a good evaluation of tumor hemodynamic effects.
G Ital Cardiol 1991 Apr
PMID:[Characterization of intracardial blood flow with Doppler color in a case of right ventricular myxoma]. 193 46

We present a patient with the unexpected association of left ventricular tumor, a fistula between the right coronary and the right atrium, and senile valvar aortic stenosis. He had anginal complaints. Doppler echocardiography revealed moderate aortic stenosis with mild aortic and moderate mitral regurgitation. A tumour was detected in the left ventricle. Selective coronary angiography disclosed normal anatomy with a fistula originating from the proximal right coronary artery and draining into the right atrium. He refused operative treatment and is still alive, 1 year after the diagnosis was made, without complications.
Int J Cardiol 1991 Oct
PMID:Coronary-cameral fistula in association with intracardiac tumour and aortic stenosis in an adult. 193 71

The diagnostic yield of transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography for identifying a cardiac source of embolism was compared in 79 patients presenting with unexplained stroke or transient ischemic attack. There were 35 men and 44 women with a mean age of 59 years (range 17 to 84); 52% had clinical cardiac disease. Both transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiograms were performed using Doppler color flow and contrast imaging. Transesophageal echocardiography identified a potential cardiac source of embolism in 57% of the overall study group compared with only 15% by transthoracic echocardiography (p less than 0.0005). Compared with transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography more frequently identified atrial septal aneurysm associated with a patent foramen ovale (9 versus 1 of 79 patients, p less than 0.005), left atrial thrombus or tumor (6 versus 0 of 79 patients, p less than 0.05) and left atrial spontaneous contrast (13 versus 0 of 79 patients, p less than 0.0005). All cases of left atrial thrombus or spontaneous contrast were identified in patients with clinically identified cardiac disease. In the 38 patients with no cardiac disease, transesophageal echocardiography identified isolated atrial septal aneurysm and atrial septal aneurysm with a patent foramen ovale more frequently than transthoracic echocardiography (8 versus 2 of 38 patients, p less than 0.05). The two techniques had a similar rate of identifying apical thrombus and mitral valve prolapse. Overall, transesophageal echocardiography identified abnormalities in 39% of patients with no cardiac disease versus 19% for transthoracic echocardiography (p less than 0.005). Thus, transesophageal echocardiography identifies potential cardiac sources of embolism in the majority of patients presenting with unexplained stroke.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
J Am Coll Cardiol 1991 Jan
PMID:Superiority of transesophageal echocardiography in detecting cardiac source of embolism in patients with cerebral ischemia of uncertain etiology. 198 42


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