Giant Pulmonary Hamartoma Causing Acute Right Heart Failure

Giant pulmonary hamartomas are rare. We describe a case of a 59-year-old female patient with a giant chondroid hamartoma in the lower lobe of the right lung presenting with acute right heart failure. To the best of our knowledge such a unique presentation has not been previously described in the lit...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Annals of thoracic surgery 2014, Vol.97 (1), p.e21-e22
Hauptverfasser:	Joshi, Heman M.N., MBChB BSc(Hons), MRCS(Eng), Page, Richard D., FRCS(C-Th)
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acute Disease Cardiothoracic Surgery Diagnosis, Differential Female Follow-Up Studies Hamartoma - complications Hamartoma - diagnosis Hamartoma - diagnostic imaging Hamartoma - surgery Heart Failure - diagnosis Heart Failure - etiology Heart Failure - surgery Humans Lung Diseases - complications Lung Diseases - diagnosis Lung Diseases - diagnostic imaging Lung Diseases - surgery Middle Aged Pneumonectomy - methods Radiography, Thoracic - methods Rare Diseases Risk Assessment Surgery Thoracotomy - methods Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods Treatment Outcome
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Zusammenfassung:	Giant pulmonary hamartomas are rare. We describe a case of a 59-year-old female patient with a giant chondroid hamartoma in the lower lobe of the right lung presenting with acute right heart failure. To the best of our knowledge such a unique presentation has not been previously described in the literature.
ISSN:	0003-4975 1552-6259
DOI:	10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.07.099