Erschienen in:
01.09.2014 | Case study
Cavernous hemangioma of the heart
verfasst von:
Z.S. Jonjev, MD, PhD, V. Torbica, D. Vučković, Z. Kosjerina
Erschienen in:
Herz
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Ausgabe 6/2014
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Excerpt
Cardiac tumors are extremely rare. Most of the cases are diagnosed postmortem, with an incidence of 0.0017–0.27 % at autopsy. Myxomas are the most frequent cardiac tumor (75 %), while cardiac hemangiomas are uncommon and found in 1–2 % of cases [
1]. However, improved imaging modalities and routine echocardiography examinations demonstrated that the true incidence of these findings is underestimated. In this report, we present a case of a septuagenarian woman, free of traditional cardiac risk factors, who required emergency surgery because of a left atrial mass complicated by recurrent syncope. …