Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
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Annagrazia Cecere

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• Case Report
  Giant Cardiac Fibroma in a Completely Asymptomatic Teenager
  Author(s): Francesco Bartolomucci, Annagrazia Cecere*, Eliano Pio Navarese, Fortunato Iacovelli, Alessandro Cafaro, Marco Matteo Ciccone and Martino Pepe Francesco Bartolomucci, Annagrazia Cecere*, Eliano Pio Navarese, Fortunato Iacovelli, Alessandro Cafaro, Marco Matteo Ciccone and Martino Pepe
  
  We report the case of a 19 years old “healthy” and asymptomatic patient accessing the Emergency Room after a car accident trauma. A routine electrocardiogram documented an intraventricular conduction disturbance. The subsequent transthoracic echocardiogram showed the presence of a voluminous heterogeneous intracardiac mass (10 × 10 × 8 cm), localized in the medium-apical cavity of the right ventricle and extended to the outflow tract. A mass debulking intervention was performed and the intraoperative biopsy samples allowed the diagnosis of cardiac fibroma. Because of dimension, intracardiac infiltration and relations, radical surgery was not an option; the patient was candidate for heart transplantation. This unique case highlights the questionable classification of cardiac fibromas as benign and the possibility of a delayed di.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9880.1000469

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