[Case report of serious cardiac insufficiency complicated by syncope].
The authors describe a case of a patient with congestive heart failure complicated by syncope, hypotension and a transitory state of vigil coma. The transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiogram showed a huge mass that occupied almost totally the right ventricle causing sever obstruction. The patient was submitted to surgery and a resection of the mass with reconstruction of the free right ventricle wall was done. The histopathology revealed to be a leiomyosarcoma. There was a previous history of an uterine surgery.
Galrinho
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A
Hospital Fernando Fonseca, Serviço de Cardiologia.
Carpinteiro
L
L
Abreu
P
P
Roquete
J
J
Ferreira
R
R
D000368:Aged; D003128:Coma / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007022:Hypotension / Q000150:complications; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D013575:Syncope / Q000150:complications*; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology