Chest Email Content Delivery
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Guest Access | Sign In via User Name/Password
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Free
Right arrow Full Text (PDF) Free
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Article Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via ISI Web of Science (5)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Krasuski, R. A.
Right arrow Articles by Bashore, T. M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Krasuski, R. A.
Right arrow Articles by Bashore, T. M.
(Chest. 2000;118:1217-1221.)
© 2000 American College of Chest Physicians

Cardiac Rhabdomyoma in an Adult Patient Presenting With Ventricular Arrhythmia*

Richard A. Krasuski, MD; Aaron B. Hesselson, MD; Kevin P. Landolfo, MD; Kenneth J. Ellington, MD and Thomas M. Bashore, MD

* From the Division of Cardiology (Dr. Krasuski, Hesselson, and Bashore), Department of Medicine, the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Dr. Landolfo), and the Department of Pathology (Dr. Ellington), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.

Correspondence to: Thomas M. Bashore, MD, Box 3012, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710; e-mail: TBMD{at}aol.com

Cardiac rhabdomyomas are extremely uncommon in the adult patient. We describe a previously healthy man who presented with ventricular arrhythmias resulting from a right ventricular, cardiac rhabdomyoma. Echocardiography, CT scanning, and MRI are recognized as useful diagnostic modalities for intracardiac lesions. Cardiac catheterization in our patient demonstrated the presence of a tumor blush. This has not previously been reported with cardiac rhabdomyomas. Although lesions may spontaneously regress, surgery is often necessary and frequently resolves the underlying arrhythmia.

Key Words: adult • arrhythmia • blush • cardiac • coronary • rhabdomyoma • spider




This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Clin Med ResHome page
M. M. Ragland and T. Tak
The role of echocardiography in diagnosing space-occupying lesions of the heart.
Clin. Med. Res., March 1, 2006; 4(1): 22 - 32.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 2000 by the American College of Chest Physicians.