Cardiac Tumors

A case of rhabdomyosarcoma of the right ventricle.

“…The features of ventricular tumours are less well known though similar to those of atrial origin. They include breathlessness, chest pain, fever, cough, loss of weight, pleural and pericardial effusions, conduction defects, emboli, murnurs, heart failure, and arrhythmias, the last two being particularly common (Harvey, 1968;Scobbo and Chung, 1974). Many of these tumours are right ventricular in origin and present with puzzling low output right heart failure which responds poorly to treatment (O'Reilly et al, 1975).…”