Pentalogy of Fallot and cardiac paraganglioma: a case report.
Primary cardiac tumors are rare. Of these the majorities are benign and about 75% are atrial myxomas. One of the rarest tumors affecting the heart is a cardiac paraganglioma. We report an unusual case of a left ventricular paraganglioma discovered during autopsy in a 22-year female patient, a case of sudden death. This patient also had coexistent Pentalogy of Fallots along with transposition of pulmonary trunk to the left ventricle, a very rare congenital cyanotic heart disease. Chronic hypoxia due to congenital cyanotic heart disease is supposed to be the cause of development of paraganglioma in heart in these patients.
Gabhane
Sushma Kashinath
SK
Department of Pathology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Wardha - 442102, Maharashtra, India.
Gangane
Nitin M
NM
Sinha
Riti T
RT