OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF AN UNRESECTABLE TUMOR OF THE LEFT-VENTRICLE JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY Jamieson, S. W., Gaudiani, V. A., Reitz, B. A., Oyer, P. E., Stinson, E. B., Shumway, N. E. 1981; 81 (5): 797-799

Abstract

A 17-year-old girl presented with an enlarged cardiac silhouette on routine chest roentgenogram. After clinical evaluation, echocardiography, and pericardiocentesis failed to provide a diagnosis, exploratory thoracotomy and biopsy revealed an unresectable left ventricular fibroma. The tumor continued to enlarge and began causing ventricular arrhythmia. Therefore, she underwent cardiac transplantation 2 years after the initial diagnosis was made. She is now alive nd well 18 months following transplantation.

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