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Leiomyoma is a benign smooth muscle tumor that very rarely becomes cancer. Uterine leiomyoma or uterine fibroid is a benign tumor of uterus arising from smooth muscle cells of myometrium. Intravenous leiomyoma with intracardiac extension is a very rare clinical entity usually develops exclusively in women arising from either uterine venous wall or uterine leiomyoma [1] which is commonly misdiagnosed as primary cardiac tumor, such as Myxoma. We report the case of 48 year old woman with intravenous leiomyoma arising from left common iliac vein and extended to the heart through the inferior vena cava presented with symptoms of hemodynamic disorder. The patient had the history of uterine fibroid. Thoracoabdominal CT was performed to finalize the diagnosis. The intravenous tumor with its extension to the right atrium was ultimately resected via cardiotomy without the need of prolonged hypothermia during cardiopulmonary bypass. Keywords:Myxoma; Cardiopulmonary bypass; Leiomyoma; Inferior vena cava Case ReportA 48 year old woman referred to our department from the department of obstetrics and gynecology who came for the routine checkup after showing a lesion in the right atrium which considered being a blood clot or a primary cardiac tumor. She had the history of total hysterectomy 5 years ago in a local hospital due to a large uterine fibroid. She was fine for the last 5 years after the surgery, but recently she started to have symptoms of breathlessness, swelling of lower limbs, intermittent abdominal pain and giddiness.On physical examination she was afebrile, conscious, cooperative, and normotensive with slight engorgement of the right jugular vein. Pelvic vascular ultrasound revealed thrombotic features in inferior vena cava and pelvic veins. On further investigation, computed tomography showed a large mass arising from the iliac veins, mainly the left side. It was confirmed that the patient has lesion arising from the pelvic veins and extended via the inferior vena cava up to the right atrium (Figures 1 and 2). After the proper and illustrative diagnosis, it was confirmed that the patient has a leiomyoma with extension to the right atrium. Patient was explained about her condition and the way of treatment. After the consent papers were signed, she was ready for the operation.The surgical approach was through median sternotomy. The usual process of establishing cardiopulmonary bypass was performed for any emergency purposes of mass bleeding. The aortic cannulation was done and connected to the extracorporeal machine with a single superior venous cannulation into the superior vena cava. The right atrium was palpated and felt the tumor. After the temperature was slightly
Objective: Short term clinic-pathological analysis of intracardiac myxoma in 14 cases Material and Methods: From January-2016 to May-2016, 14 patients, 5 males and 9 females, aged 22 ~ 71 mean age (45.1 ± 13.3) years were admitted in our department of cardio-vascular surgery, the second affiliated hospital of Zhengzhou university. All the patients were diagnosed to have myxoma by transthoracic echocardiography. Myxoma was in different positions in the heart, 9 cases in left atrium, 2 cases in right atrium, 2 cases in left ventricule and 1 case in right ventricle. All the patients were performed open heart surgery via midsternal incision under cardiopulmonary bypass with slight hypothermia and myxomas were excised successfully.Result: Myxoma was found most commonly in the left atrium. All the 14 patients were performed open heart surgery as to remove the myxomas. 1 patient died due to acute renal failure and low cardiac output syndrome at 24hr postoperative with perioperative mortality rate of 7.14%. All other patients had uneventful recovery and discharged at postoperative 10-19 days with average hospital stay time of 13.76 days. Conclusion:Myxoma is the most common tumor of the heart which is most frequently located in the left atrium. Careful surgical excision and meticulous removal of myxomatous debris with proper perioperative management is the choice of treatment with minimal early and late morbidity as well as mortality.
We report a case of an intravenous leiomyomatosis of uterine origin extending into the right atrium, which was treated by two-stage surgery.
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