[Case report of serious cardiac insufficiency complicated by syncope]

Rev Port Cardiol. 1999 Jan;18(1):59-60.
[Article in Portuguese]

Abstract

The authors describe a case of a patient with congestive heart failure complicated by syncope, hypotension and a transitory state of vigil coma. The transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiogram showed a huge mass that occupied almost totally the right ventricle causing sever obstruction. The patient was submitted to surgery and a resection of the mass with reconstruction of the free right ventricle wall was done. The histopathology revealed to be a leiomyosarcoma. There was a previous history of an uterine surgery.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Coma / complications
  • Female
  • Heart Failure / complications*
  • Heart Neoplasms / complications
  • Heart Neoplasms / secondary
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery
  • Humans
  • Hypotension / complications
  • Leiomyosarcoma / complications
  • Leiomyosarcoma / secondary
  • Leiomyosarcoma / surgery
  • Syncope / complications*
  • Uterine Neoplasms / pathology