title: Left ventricular hemangioma.
abstract: Primary cardiac tumors of the ventricles are very uncommon. Cardiac hemangiomas are extremely rare primary benign cardiac tumors that are often asymptomatic and are typically diagnosed incidentally during an echocardiographic examination. We report the case of a 27-year-old male who was referred to our hospital complaining of atypical chest pain over the last three months. The pain was unrelated to exercise, and consisted of 1-2 minutes of ongoing, stinging chest pain followed by 2-3 seconds of ongoing palpitations. His physical examination was unremarkable, his blood pressure was 130/80 mmHg, his ECG was sinus rhythm, and his heart rate was 82 beats/min. A transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a mobile 1.20x1.28 cm mass in the left ventricular cavity at the antero-lateral wall. Subsequent coronary angiography was performed to determine the vascular supply for the mass, and showed late opacification of a well-vascularized left ventricle mass from the second diagonal artery. Surgery was performed and the mass was complete resected. The pathological and histological examination of the resected mass showed that it was a hemangioma. The patient was discharged 5 days after surgery without symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Bursa Higher Specialization Training and Research Hospital, Bursa, Turkey. hasanari03@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Hasan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Arı
authors.forename: Selma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arı
authors.forename: Tufan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Günay
authors.forename: Kemal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Karaağaç
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002637:Chest Pain; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D004452:Echocardiography; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male