Cardiac lipoma in the interventricular septum: a case report

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Kexiang Liu²  Rihao Xu²  Yuefeng Wang¹  Zhicheng Zhu²  Weitie Wang²  Dan Li² 

[1] Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Daqing Oilfield General Hospital, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China;Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2nd Hospital of Bethune, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

关键词: Pathology;    Cardiac surgery;    Lipoma;    Cardiac tumors;   

Others  :  1209343
DOI  :  10.1186/s13019-015-0275-0

 received in 2014-12-07, accepted in 2015-05-01,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Primary cardiac tumors are rare. The cardiac lipoma cases have been sparsely reported. We report a case of interventricular septal lipoma complicated with mild tricuspid regurgitation in a 65-year-old Chinese male. The patient presented with shortness of breath after exertion. His diagnosis was made with echocardiogram, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, cardiac computed tomography and post-operative histopathology. The patient underwent tumor resection and postoperative recovery was uneventful. He was asymptomatic with no recurrence at 8-month follow-up.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Li et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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