Primary cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma causing obstruction to the right ventricular outflow

Alberto Bouzas-Mosquera; Xacobe Flores-Rios; Guillermo Aldama

doi:10.1016/j.euje.2006.07.002

Primary cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma causing obstruction to the right ventricular outflow

Eur J Echocardiogr. 2007 Oct;8(5):406-7. doi: 10.1016/j.euje.2006.07.002. Epub 2006 Aug 28.

Authors

Alberto Bouzas-Mosquera¹, Xacobe Flores-Rios, Guillermo Aldama

Affiliation

¹ Cardiology Department, Juan Canalejo Hospital, As Xubias 84, 15006, A Coruña, Spain. aboumos@canalejo.org

PMID: 16935565
DOI: 10.1016/j.euje.2006.07.002

Abstract

A 72-year-old man presented with worsening shortness of breath and a systolic murmur. Transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiograms revealed a huge mass (70 x 30 mm) obliterating the right ventricular outflow tract, with a peak transpulmonary gradient of 128 mmHg. Pathological examination confirmed the mass to be a primary cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma originating from the pulmonary valve.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Echocardiography, Transesophageal*
Fatal Outcome
Heart Neoplasms / complications*
Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Male
Rhabdomyosarcoma / complications*
Rhabdomyosarcoma / diagnostic imaging*
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / diagnostic imaging*
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / etiology*