PURPOSE Cardiac myxomas are rare benign tumors of the heart. Although most cases are sporadic, rare familial occurrence has been described. The aim of this study was to evaluate tumor involvement in family members of patients with cardiac myxoma and to compare familial vs nonfamilial cardiac myxoma in relation to age, sex, site and multichamber involvement, endocrine abnormality, embolism, pres...

BACKGROUND To report early and late outcomes of patients with the primary cardiac valve tumor undergoing surgical treatment over a 30-year period in our cardiovascular center. METHODS From January 1980 to December 2014, a total of 211 patients with primary cardiac tumors accepted surgical treatments, of which only 8 (3.8 %) were primary cardiac valve tumor patients in our surgical center of c...

Although cardiac myxoma is the most commonly encountered benign cardiac tumor in cardiac surgery practice, recurrent cardiac myxoma is very rare, is most commonly related to the Carney complex, and usually requires multiple cardiac operations with specific requirements in terms of perioperative management. In this report, we describe a patient who experienced the fourth recurrence of cardiac my...

Myxomas are the most common type of primary benign cardiac tumor in adults, with an incidence about 0.2 % population at autopsy. develop from multipotent mesenchyme and usually undifferentiated, pedunculated atrial mass attached to a fossa ovale on left side septum. Frequent asymptomatic course disease complicates timely diagnosis treatment. The presented clinical observation demonstrates accid...

Primary cardiac sarcoma is a rapidly progressive, aggressive tumor that very rare in the general population. Conservative treatment for this not effective. The only effective radical surgical removal of malignancy. However, if cannot be performed, heart transplantation (HT) becomes option. median survival recipients with preoperative 8.5 months. Globally, such operations are performed small num...

BACKGROUND Cardiac myxoma is known to cause repeated events of cerebral embolism. Soft and irregularly shaped myxomas with high mobility are associated with a higher occurrence of cerebral embolism. In contrast, nonmobile cardiac myxomas with a round regular shape are rarely considered to be a cause of cerebral embolism. In this case, we present a patient with recurrent cerebral embolism associ...

background: neuroblastoma is the most common tumor in infancy and wilms’ tumor is the most common malignant tumor of kidney in childhood. both the tumors are usually within the differential diagnosis of each other. this study compares the clinical manifestations, sex and age distribution of childhood wilms’ tumor and neuroblastoma at one of tehran children hospitals. materials and methods: the ...

abstract gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumors are a group of tumors originating from the mesenchymal stem cells of the gi tract. digestive tract schwannomas are rare mesenchymal tumors which occur most frequently in the stomach. we report a 56-yearold woman who was examined endoscopically for dyspepsia which she had suffered from since 3 years ago. around gastric antral mass was seen. surgical r...

Although rare, cardiac tumors are a type of surgical pathology that can present itself during clinical practice. Like the majority neoplasms, these classified into two groups: primary and secondary or benign malignant. However, classification does not determine treatment, but diagnostic pathway is same this revolve only around cardiologist an/or surgeon for optimal patient outcomes. That why it...