title: Atrial fibrillation as a first clinical manifestation of right atrial cavernous haemangioma.
abstract: Primary heart tumours are rare with an incidence of 0.02% in reported autopsy series. One of the most uncommon is haemangioma. We describe the case of a 51-year-old woman, who presented with a giant cavernous haemangioma, but with no clinical manifestations other than atrial fibrillation. Performed echocardiography showed a giant (6.5 x 7.5 cm) tumour located in the right atrium, modelling other heart chambers. In order to improve atrial haemodynamics, a large portion of the tumour was removed via sternotomy. Examination after 12 months showed no further growth of the unremoved part of the tumour.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Cardiology, The Medical University of Warsaw, Poland. filip.szymanski@wum.edu.pl
authors.forename: Filip M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Szymanski
authors.forename: Michal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marchel
authors.forename: Anna E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Platek
authors.forename: Franciszek
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Majstrak
authors.forename: Bogna
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ziarkiewicz-Wroblewska
authors.forename: Krzysztof J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Filipiak
authors.forename: Grzegorz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Opolski
mesh_terms: D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D061330:Multidetector Computed Tomography