title: Successful resection of a symptomatic right ventricular lipoma.
abstract: We report the case of a 31-year-old woman with a 4-year history of recurrent palpitations, presenting with an increased frequency of paroxysms caused by ventricular tachycardias during pregnancy. A cardiac tumor of unknown origin infiltrating the right ventricle was diagnosed. Three weeks after prophylactic abrasion the tumor was totally excised with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass including restoration of the right ventricular wall and the tricuspid valve. Histology confirmed diagnosis of a benign cardiac lipoma. The postoperative course was uneventful and the patient was discharged 7 days after surgery. There was no episode of ventricular tachycardias during the 6-month follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. tobias.deuse@t-online.de
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schrepfer
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Deuse
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Detter
authors.forename: Hendrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Treede
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Koops
authors.forename: Dieter H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Boehm
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Willems
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lacour-Gayet
authors.forename: Hermann
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Reichenspurner
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000601:surgery*