Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction in an Older Woman: Facilitated Diagnosis with Transesophageal Echocardiography–Guided Biopsy

Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction in an Older Woman: Facilitated Diagnosis with Transesophageal Echocardiography–Guided Biopsy

Fibrosarcoma is a rare primary cardiac malignancy. We report the case of a 70-year-old woman who had signs of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction caused by a fibrosarcoma. The pivotal role of multiplanar transesophageal echocardiography in characterizing masses in this location and in guidin...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 2000-06, Vol.13 (6), p.622-625
Hauptverfasser: Beaver, Timothy A., Robb, John F., Teufel, Edward J., Malenka, David J., Palac, Robert T.
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Sprache:eng
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Aged
Cardiac Catheterization
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Fatal Outcome
Female
Fibroma - complications
Fibroma - diagnostic imaging
Heart Neoplasms - complications
Heart Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Humans
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction - etiology
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Zusammenfassung:Fibrosarcoma is a rare primary cardiac malignancy. We report the case of a 70-year-old woman who had signs of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction caused by a fibrosarcoma. The pivotal role of multiplanar transesophageal echocardiography in characterizing masses in this location and in guiding transvenous biopsy is discussed. (J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2000;13:622-5.)
ISSN:0894-7317
1097-6795
DOI:10.1067/mje.2000.105176