Scafuri Antonio, Bellos Kyriakos, Nardi Paolo, Chiariello Luigi
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2009 Jun;8(6):699-700. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2008.199331. Epub 2009 Mar 11.
Cardiac masses are discovered occasionally. They are represented by thrombi, vegetations and tumors, primary or metastatic. The most frequent cardiac tumor is myxoma. The coincidence of pregnancy and a primary cardiac tumor is extremely rare. Only a few case reports of heart tumors during pregnancy are presented in the literature. The case of a young woman with the initial echocardiographic diagnosis of right ventricle mass is reported.