Papillary fibroelastoma is a rare benign cardiac tumor that usually arises from the valvular endocardium and its development in the cardiac chambers is extremely rare. A 52-year-old woman complained of palpitations and echocardiography revealed a cardiac tumor. Resection was performed via the right ventricle and main pulmonary artery under cardiopulmonary bypass. Histological examination of the...

PURPOSE Cardiac carcinoma is the most common subtype of gastric cancer and its incidence has increased in recent years. The current chemotherapeutic drugs exhibit limited effectiveness and significant side effects in patients. Maslinic acid (MA) exerts an anti-tumor activity on a wide range of cancers and has no significant side effect; however, the anti-tumor effect of MA on cardiac carcinoma ...

Fetal echocardiography in the 32nd week of gestation showed cardiac tumor and pericardial effusion. The pericardial effusion gradually increased, and cardiac function was impaired by cardiac tamponade. Cardiotocography showed fetal distress. Emergent cesarean section was performed. Cardiac tamponade resulted in respiratory failure after birth. Artificial ventilation and pericardiocentesis were ...

Hemangioma of the heart, presenting as a primary cardiac tumor is extremely rare; it accounts for approximately 2% of all primary resected heart tumors. In our patient, the tumor was located in the orifice of the right lower pulmonary vein. Few cases of cardiac hemangiomas have been reported to arise from the left atrial (LA) wall. Left atrial hemangiomas, especially those attached to the LA wa...

primary leiomyosarcoma of the heart is extremely rare and found in about 0.2% of all cardiac tumors. here in a 26-year-old man with progressive dyspnea, which had started since 2 months ago, is presented. echocardiography revealed a left atrial mass, which was suggestive for a atrial myxoma.on the surgery, a tumoral tissue in the left atrium and pulmonary veins with attachment to peripheral sof...

Primary cardiac tumors are very rare, papillary fibroelastoma (PFE) being the second most common benign tumor of the heart in previous series. However, as a consequence of increased imaging examinations, incidental PFE may represent the most common cardiac tumor. Their clinical presentation varies from incidental asymptomatic masses to severe life-threatening cardiovascular complications necess...

We report a case of intrapericardial teratoma, which is a rare primary cardiac tumor usually found in newborns and infants. Cardiac teratomas can cause respiratory failure, large accumulations of pericardial fluid and cardiac compression leading to death in the intrauterine or neonatal period. The case described is rare because it is of a 16-year-old asymptomatic girl with an intrapericardial t...

124 A 40-year-old man with a history of obesity, smoking and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome was referred for image assessment after routine electrocardiography suggested apical hypertrophy. Due to inadequate ultrasound window, the diagnosis could not be established by echocardiography. Cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, with and without contrast enhancement, demonstrated a large, homoge...

t-wave oversensing occurs when the counter starts giving dual beeps for every cardiac cycle instead of one. this usually happens when the monitoring lead displays a tall t wave, which is also sharp. r wave sensing algorithms of the devices do not sense t wave because the slow rate of the t wave is much less than that of the r wave. but the slow rate of t waves may change with time and also beca...

Intracardiac thrombosis is a rare manifestation of cardiac involvement in Behçet's disease, and it may be mistaken for a heart tumor. In this letter we present the case of a patient diagnosed with Behçet's disease who was incidentally found to have a mass in the right atrium suspicious of a cardiac tumor. Nevertheless, cardiac magnetic resonance showed a cardiac thrombus. Immunosuppressive ther...