Right-ventricular hemangioma causing serious outflow-tract obstruction.
A 28-year-old woman had a partially nonexertional dyspnea and a murmur of pulmonary stenosis. Echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mass causing a nearly completely pulmonary outflow-tract obstruction. The mass was successfully resected and the pathological diagnosis of a mixed capillary and cavernous polypoid hemangioma was made. This case represents one of the very rare cases of a right-ventricular hemangioma in adults in which obstruction of the outflow-tract was initially evident. Non-invasive diagnosis and an exploratory operation with resection is the procedure of choice.
Reiss
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Clinic for Heart Surgery, University of Cologne, Germany.
Theissen
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Feaux de Lacroix
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D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology