Primary cardiac leiomyosarcoma growing rapidly and causing right ventricular outflow obstruction

Intern Med. 1998 Apr;37(4):370-5. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.370.

Abstract

Leiomyosarcomas are extremely rare primary cardiac tumors. We report a rapidly growing primary leiomyosarcoma of the right ventricle, which obstructed the right ventricular outflow tract within one month after symptom onset in a 68-year-old man. Two-dimensional echocardiography was useful in diagnosing the extent and progression of the tumor. The tumor was surgically resected on an emergency basis, and the right ventricle and pulmonary artery were successfully reconstructed. Recurrence of the tumor on the right ventricle was observed, and the patient was overcome by sudden dyspnea and died three months after surgery.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Disease Progression
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Electrocardiography
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Heart Neoplasms / complications*
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery
  • Humans
  • Leiomyosarcoma / complications*
  • Leiomyosarcoma / diagnosis
  • Leiomyosarcoma / surgery
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / diagnosis
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / etiology*
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / surgery