Right ventricle mass in a woman discovered after preeclampsia
Author(s) -
Antonio Scafuri,
Kyriakos Bellos,
Paolo Nardi,
Luigi Chiariello
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1569-9293
pISSN - 1569-9285
DOI - 10.1510/icvts.2008.199331
Subject(s) - medicine , ventricle , cardiac tumors , myxoma , heart neoplasms , pregnancy , preeclampsia , cardiology , radiology , biology , genetics
Cardiac masses are discovered occasionally. They are represented by thrombi, vegetations and tumors, primary or metastatic. The most frequent cardiac tumor is myxoma. The coincidence of pregnancy and a primary cardiac tumor is extremely rare. Only a few case reports of heart tumors during pregnancy are presented in the literature. The case of a young woman with the initial echocardiographic diagnosis of right ventricle mass is reported.
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