title: A giant symptomatic cardiac lipoma recurring at the fifth year.
abstract: Cardiac lipomas are extremely rare in the heart diseases and only few present with a wide spectrum of clinical signs, including life-threatening arrhythmias and sudden death. We report a 48-year-old woman who with a 2-year history of recurrent dyspnea with mild anemia was admitted to our hospital as a huge mass was found in her mediastinum. After complete surgical tumor resection, she was recurred at the fifth year. This case underlines the giant cardiac lipomas had a slightly higher risk of recurrence over the next five years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command Wuhan 430070, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command Wuhan 430070, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command Wuhan 430070, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Er-Ping
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Xi
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command Wuhan 430070, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Shui-Bo
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Zhu
keywords: Cardiac; lipoma; recurrence; surgery