Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction in an older woman: facilitated diagnosis with transesophageal echocardiography-guided biopsy.
Fibrosarcoma is a rare primary cardiac malignancy. We report the case of a 70-year-old woman who had signs of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction caused by a fibrosarcoma. The pivotal role of multiplanar transesophageal echocardiography in characterizing masses in this location and in guiding transvenous biopsy is discussed.
Beaver
T A
TA
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.
Robb
J F
JF
Teufel
E J
EJ
Malenka
D J
DJ
Palac
R T
RT
D000368:Aged; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*