[Successful excision of a left ventricular fibroma in an adult patient].
A 48-year-old woman with negative T waves in leads I, a VL and V4-6 in the ECG was examined. The cross-sectional echography and the MRI revealed that she had a tumor in the free wall of the left ventricle. Under the cardiopulmonary bypass, the intramural fibroma (6 by 6 by 4 cm) of the left ventricle was resected and the defect was repaired by sutures of the outer myocardial layers to keep the left ventricular volume. Forty eight days after the initial operation, a reoperation was performed by interrupted sutures of the whole myocardial layers. She is doing well without any troubles 14 months after the reoperation.
Inamura
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First Department of Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
Iwasaki
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Koide
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Shohtsu
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A
Kanemoto
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N
D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic