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Pulmonary Valve Fibroelastoma, Still a Very Rare Cardiac Tumor: Case Report and Literature Review [PDF]
Background and Clinical Significance: Primary cardiac tumors are among the rarest types of tumor, and until the mid-20th century, they were diagnosed only post-mortem or during other surgical interventions.
Emanuel-David Anitei +7 more
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Cardiac tumors (CTs) are extremely rare, with an incidence of approximately 0.02% in autopsy series. Primary tumors of the heart are far less common than metastatic tumors. CTs usually present with any possible clinical combination of heart failure, arrhythmias, or embolism.
Grazia Casavecchia +7 more
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What does a floating mass in a young patient's heart do?
A previously healthy 57-year-old male patient presented to our emergency department for palpitations, dry cough, and non-exertional chest pain. He denied lipothymia or syncope.
Tommaso Sonnessa, Daniela Vaira
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Cardiac tumors represent a relatively rare, yet challenging diagnosis. Secondary tumors are far more frequent than primary tumors of the heart. The majority of primary cardiac tumors is benign in origin, with primary malignant tumors accounting for 25% of cases.
Paraskevaidis, Ioannis A. +3 more
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Introduction: Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas (PFEs) are the most common primary benign cardiac tumors, although they are somewhat unusual in children and typically seen on the left-sided cardiac valves.Case summary: A 10-week-old patient was found to ...
Ali Ahmad +9 more
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Cardiac Tumor in Newborn as the Marker of Tuberous Sclerosis: Clinical Case
Background. The most common cardiac tumor in children is rhabdomyoma. Its frequency is 58.3% in the early neonatal period. Rhabdomyoma is associate with tuberous sclerosis pretty often (50-86% of all cases) and it be its diagnostic marker.Clinical case ...
Elena I. Naumenko +2 more
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We present the case of a young male patient with an initial diagnosis of a rhabdomyoma that was surgically treated at a different hospital when he was 17. After a 2-year disease-free period, the patient presented another intra-cardiac mass.
Jorge Cossío-Aranda +8 more
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We report an antenatal presentation of a huge pericardial mature teratoma that was referred as congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) in the late third trimester of pregnancy.
Vivek Krishnan +4 more
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A Rare Cardiac Tumor in Childhood
The prevalence of primary cardiac tumors has been reported to be between 0.19% and 0.0017%. Cardiac tumors are usually intracavitary lesions and more than 75% of them are benign.
Murat Elevli +6 more
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Pulmonary artery transection for resection of a middle mediastinal paraganglioma
We report the case of a 65‐year‐old male patient who presented with chest pain and was found to have a mediastinal paraganglioma between the left atrium and main pulmonary artery.
Alice L. Zhou +4 more
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