title: Right ventricle mass in a woman discovered after preeclampsia.
abstract: Cardiac masses are discovered occasionally. They are represented by thrombi, vegetations and tumors, primary or metastatic. The most frequent cardiac tumor is myxoma. The coincidence of pregnancy and a primary cardiac tumor is extremely rare. Only a few case reports of heart tumors during pregnancy are presented in the literature. The case of a young woman with the initial echocardiographic diagnosis of right ventricle mass is reported.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scafuri
authors.forename: Kyriakos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bellos
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nardi
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chiariello
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology