Introduction: Cardiac myxoma is a benign and rare tumor, which can present with a grim phenomenon if the presentation is late or the diagnosis and surgery are delayed. The purpose of this study was to share our institutional experience of cardiac myxoma. Material and Methods: This retrospective study was conducted to evaluate patients undergoing procedures at a single tertiary care centre for t...

A 74-year-old woman was admitted in a serious condition due to the failing right heart. A CT scan revealed a tumor infiltration through the interventricular septum in the right heart, spreading from the apex as far as under the tricuspid valve. The tumor penetrated into the conus of the pulmonary artery, bulging and markedly narrowing the lumen. As a result of the tumor infiltration, the patien...

Myxoma atrium kiri pada dasarnya merupakan tumor jinak jantung yang paling banyak ditemui, terjadi secara sporadik dan penyebabnya masih belum diketahui. Presentasi klinis myxoma bergantung lokasi, ukuran, mobilitas tumor. dapat bervariasi dari mulai asimtomatik hingga kematian mendadak. Artikel ini membahas mengenai suatu kasus pasien laki-laki berusia 36 tahun datang dengan keluhan sesak nafa...

BACKGROUND Primary cardiac sarcomas are extremely rare. Furthermore, the myxofibrosarcomas are one of the rarest forms of cardiac sarcomas, and its prognosis is known to be quite poor. CASE PRESENTATION This is a case of a 23-year-old man who presented with acute severe congestive heart failure caused by almost complete obstruction of the mitral valve due to a large left atrial tumor. The pat...

Pulmonary tumor embolism is a rare syndrome caused by migration of tumoral emboli into the pulmonary arteries. These tumor emboli may form a fibrin-platelet thrombi, resulting in pulmonary-artery hypertension and subsequent right-heart failure. Establishing this diagnosis can be very difficult, and most cases are diagnosed during autopsy,1 although a history of cancer may be a predictor. We rep...

We report a 5-year boy presenting with pain in the lower chest and upper abdomen. On evaluation with computed tomography scan of the chest, he was found to have a large 16 x 14 cm posterior mediastinal mass compressing the inferior vena cava and liver, and shifting the heart to the opposite side. Tumor was approached via right postero-lateral thoracotomy and dissected off from esophagus, heart,...

We describe an autopsy case of non-functioning pancreatic neuroendocrine carcinoma metastasizing to the myocardium. A 63-year-old Japanese man was admitted to the hospital presenting with dyspnea. Echocardiography revealed marked left ventricular hypertrophy and diffuse myocardial thickening with pericardial effusion. The patient died of heart failure. An autopsy revealed that the whole pancrea...

In heart failure localized interlober pleural effusion is rare but well-known finding. But there is not enough case reports in the literature. This radiological finding seems like a mass and undergoes resolution quickly, It is also known as vanishing tumor, pseudotumor or phantom tumor. It is difficult to estimate the incidence due to the small number of reported cases. Determination of the mas...

The primary heart tumors have an incidence varying from 0.001% to 0.28% of all tumors, reported in necropsies series. Lipoma consists of a benign tumour corresponding to about 8% of all primary heart tumors. When present, the symptoms are related to the size and location of such tumor. We report a case of a 27-year-old man with a lipoma in the right atrium who underwent surgical treatment with ...

A 57-year-old man was hospitalized with dyspnea and heart failure. We performed an electrocardiogram, coronary angiogram, echocardiogram, and magnetic resonance imaging. He was diagnosed with a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm (i.e., heart tumor) at the posterolateral wall. Minimal contrast medium was utilized when making the diagnosis as the patient was on dialysis. We subsequently repaired the...