Heart transplantation for ventricular arrhythmia caused by a rare hamartoma.
Hamartoma of mature cardiac myocytes is a form of cardiac tumor that shares some features with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and rhabdomyomas. Here we describe a patient with a ventricular hamartoma complicated with ventricular tachycardia. Resection was not practical because of difficulty in maintaining the ventricular geometry, so heart transplantation was done.
Hsu
Po-Shun
PS
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chen
Jia-Lin
JL
Hong
Guo-Jieng
GJ
Tsai
Yi-Ting
YT
Tsai
Chien-Sung
CS
D005260:Female; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult