Primary cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma causing obstruction to the right ventricular outflow.
A 72-year-old man presented with worsening shortness of breath and a systolic murmur. Transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiograms revealed a huge mass (70 x 30 mm) obliterating the right ventricular outflow tract, with a peak transpulmonary gradient of 128 mmHg. Pathological examination confirmed the mass to be a primary cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma originating from the pulmonary valve.
Bouzas-Mosquera
Alberto
A
Cardiology Department, Juan Canalejo Hospital, As Xubias 84, 15006, A Coruña, Spain. aboumos@canalejo.org
Flores-Rios
Xacobe
X
Aldama
Guillermo
G
D000368:Aged; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012208:Rhabdomyosarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*