Objective: Primary cardiac tumours are rare. The literature predominantly contains series on myxomas in adults and only a few long-term series that involve the very different primary cardiac tumours in early childhood. As foetal ultrasonography has continued to improve, cardiac tumours are increasingly detected early before significant symptoms develop. It is a challenge for paediatric cardiolo...

Myxomas are uncommon primary cardiac tumours, usually affecting the left atrium. We describe an unusual presentation of cardiac myxoma with asymptomatic proteinuria and haematuria. Surgical excision of the tumour resulted in complete resolution of the urinary abnormalities. The production of antiendothelial cell antibodies and interleukin-6 by cardiac myxomas may be relevant as these substances...

Primary cardiac tumours are rare, with a necropsy incidence of 0.05%. Secondary deposits are seen more frequently, in 1% of postmortem examinations, but usually in the setting of widely disseminated malignancy. The relative incidence of presentation is shown in table 1, and demonstrates that atrial myxoma is by far the most common primary cardiac tumour in adults, and rhabdomyosarcoma is the mo...

inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is an uncommon benign neoplasm and its presentation in small bowel is rare. due to clinical manifestation, laboratory data and radiologic results, there is an increased risk of over diagnosis as malignant tumors particularly malignant lymphoma in childhood therefore may be resulting in wrong therapeutic approach. however pathologic findings could be demonstrat...

We describe the incidental finding and treatment of a very rare and voluminous cardiac tumour located near to the pulmonary infundibulum. The mass was surgically resected and final diagnosis was hamartoma of mature cardiac myocytes. Postoperative course was uneventful and the patient is asymptomatic after six months of follow-up.

micropapillary variant of urothelial carcinoma (uc) of the bladder is an aggressive tumour, comprising 0.6-6% of all uc. it generally presents with high-grade and stage, and has been reported as having a worse prognosis when compared to traditional uc. we report the case of a 58-year-old man who presented with macroscopic haematuria. the patient was diagnosed with high-grade urothelial carcinom...

Metastatic cardiac tumours are the most common malignant cardiac tumours. In the early stages they are usually asymptomatic, but their consequences can be very serious, and the prognosis is poor. We present a patient with recurrent renal cell carcinoma as a tumour of the right atrium and the vena cava inferior in whom cancerous masses were removed with simultaneously coronary artery bypass-graf...

Bidirectional ventricular tachycardia (BDVT) is a rare form of ventricular arrhythmia, characterized by changing QRS axis of 180 degrees. Digitalis toxicity is considered as commonest cause of BDVT; other causes include aconite toxicity, myocarditis, myocardial infarction, metastatic cardiac tumour and cardiac channelopathies. We describe a case of BDVT in a patient with Anderson-Tawil syndrome.