An intracardiac mass in a young man with congenitally acquired HIV.
A case of a 19-year-old man with congenitally acquired HIV infection who was found to have a large intracardiac mass is presented. Presurgical imaging studies and subsequent pathologic findings and histology are discussed.
Patel
Manesh R
MR
Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA. patel017@dcri.duke.edu
Thomson
Louise E J
LE
Meine
Trip J
TJ
Heitner
John
J
Burfeind
William R
WR
Messier
Robert H
RH
Corey
G Ralph
GR
Kim
Raymond J
RJ
D000328:Adult; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000635:transmission; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; D008297:Male; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014463:Ultrasonography