title: Intimal cardiac sarcoma in a pregnant woman.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.
authors.forename: Ho Sung
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Son
authors.forename: Kyung
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Jae Seung
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Sung Min
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Sung Ho
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Kwang Taik
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: 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