title: Surgical resection of a giant cardiac fibroma.
abstract: A 42-year-old woman presented to a regional hospital emergency room with palpitations and was found to be in ventricular tachycardia. Chest radiography demonstrated a massively enlarged cardiac silhouette. Echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a mass within the left ventricular free wall, consistent with a cardiac fibroma. The patient proceeded to have surgical resection of the mass. Left ventricular function was preserved postoperatively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia nikki.stamp@health.wa.gov.au.
authors.forename: Nikki L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Stamp
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia.
authors.forename: Robert I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Larbalestier
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D047368:Tumor Burden; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left
keywords: Fibroma; heart neoplasms; heart ventricles