Left ventricular hamartoma associated with ventricular tachycardia.
Cardiac hamartomas are a rare type of benign tumor affecting the heart. We describe a 33-year-old patient who presented with a wide complex tachycardia. Diagnostic imaging revealed a mass in the patient's left ventricular wall, near the apex of the heart. The mass was surgically resected and appeared benign. Its pathology was that of a hamartoma of mature cardiac myocytes. Postoperative electrophysiology evaluation showed no inducible focus and the patient remains alive and asymptomatic after 2 years of follow-up.
Dinh
M H
MH
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA.
Galvin
J M
JM
Aretz
T H
TH
Torchiana
D F
DF
D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D004699:Endocardium / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male