Intimal cardiac sarcoma in a pregnant woman.
A 29-year-old female patient in the 28th week of pregnancy was diagnosed with a cardiac tumor. We performed tumor excision and mitral valve replacement, and her baby was born successfully with cesarean section on the 9th day after cardiac surgery. After this event, 8 cycles of chemotherapy were administered. After 10 months, metastatic intimal sarcoma of the right ovary developed, and a right salpingo-oophorectomy and omentectomy was performed. However, the patient died of sudden onset of intractable ventricular fibrillation.
Son
Ho Sung
HS
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.
Sun
Kyung
K
Jung
Jae Seung
JS
Park
Sung Min
SM
Lee
Sung Ho
SH
Kim
Kwang Taik
KT
D000328:Adult; D002585:Cesarean Section; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000628:therapy*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary / Q000628:therapy*; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000209:etiology