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.
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Po-Shun
PS
Hsu
Jia-Lin
JL
Chen
Guo-Jieng
GJ
Hong
Yi-Ting
YT
Tsai
Chien-Sung
CS
Tsai
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