INTRODUCTION Cardiac inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a rare tumor that can cause potentially fatal outcomes. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case where the tumor originated on the mitral valve and extended through the left ventricular outflow tract and aortic valve and into the left main artery obstructing it. Due to the hemodynamic instability of the patient, we proceeded for cardiac c...

Introduction: Certain cardiac tumors are asymptomatic and detected by chance after autopsy. The clinical signs symptoms of vary greatly determined mainly the tumor's location size rather than its histology. Cardiac masses have a broad differential diagnosis, it is critical to differentiate between neoplastic non-neoplastic benign malignant neoplasms. Surgery advised in situations heart failure ...

We report a rare case of a hemodialysis patient with a calcified amorphous tumor (CAT) on both sides of the atrioventricular valve annulus. A 70-year-old female who had received hemodialysis for 23 years because of chronic glomerulonephritis presented to our hospital with acute heart failure. Echocardiography indicated the presence of mobile cardiac masses on the mitral valve and tricuspid valv...

A 16-year-old boy was submitted to a cardiac examination after an episode of faintness. A transthoracic echocardiogram was performed, which revealed a very mobile multicystic tumor attached to the mitral valve. A small solid mass adherent to the cysts was better defined by transesophageal echocardiography. The patient was submitted to cardiac surgery consisting of tumor resection and a mitral p...

Primary tumors of the heart are rare, and among them, cardiac myxoma is the most prevalent primary cardiac neoplasm in adult patients. Astrocytoma is the most common glioma and can occur in most parts of the brain and occasionally in the spinal cord. There is a little knowledge about coexistence of cardiac myxoma and astrocytoma in the literature. Cardiac myxoma associated with intracranial tum...

Primary cardiac sarcomas are rare. In such tumors, surgical resection is sometimes considered necessary to correct obstruction of flow caused by the tumor and to accomplish complete resection. The anatomic difficulties associated with large, primary, intracavitary left-sided sarcomas have led us to use cardiac explantation, ex vivo tumor resection, and cardiac autotransplantation to meet the an...

Abstract A 47 years old man, with no previous medical history, presented to the emergency department for dyspnea increased over prior weeks. The echocardiographic evaluation revealed a severe pericardial effusion. Moreover, round-shaped, indeterminate mass was detected into pericardium, partially enhanced after injection SonoVue R contrast. After pericardiocentesis, exclude dilatation of corona...