Right ventricle mass in a woman discovered after preeclampsia.
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.
Scafuri
Antonio
A
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Bellos
Kyriakos
K
Nardi
Paolo
P
Chiariello
Luigi
L
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