title: Successful surgical treatment for recurrent cardiac fibroma 21 years after resection.
abstract: Cardiac fibromas are rare benign tumors usually seen in the pediatric population. Generally, long-term survival after surgical resection is favorable, and recurrence of fibroma has been hardly reported. Herein, we report a case of a 34-year-old woman who presented with ventricular tachycardia 21 years after resection of a cardiac fibroma and was found to have a recurrent giant cardiac fibroma. We performed a complete resection of the recurrent fibroma. At the 2-year follow-up, she remains asymptomatic with no evidence of ventricular tachycardia or recurrence of fibroma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan. kunio555@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Kunio
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kusajima
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan. hatahiro@ncvc.go.jp.
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hata
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan. tomofujita@nifty.com.
authors.forename: Tomoyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan. victorin@ncvc.go.jp.
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shimahara
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan. satosyun@outlook.com.
authors.forename: Shunsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan. hueda@ncvc.go.jp.
authors.forename: Hatsue
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishibashi-Ueda
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan. jkobayas@ncvc.go.jp.
authors.forename: Junjiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
keywords: Arrhythmia; Cardiac fibroma; Cardiac tumor; Recurrence; Surgery