Partial resection of intravenous leiomyomatosis with cardiac extension

Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2011 Jan;59(1):38-41. doi: 10.1007/s11748-010-0620-0. Epub 2011 Jan 12.

Abstract

Intravenous leiomyomatosis with cardiac extension is rare and may result in a fatal outcome. A 58-year-old woman with a surgical history of myoma uteri was admitted to our hospital for treatment of intravenous leiomyomatosis extending into the right atrium through the inferior vena cava. We partially resected the tumor inside the right atrium and the inferior vena cava via the right atrium using cardiopulmonary bypass. There is no progression of the residual tumor after 25 months of follow-up.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures*
  • Cardiopulmonary Bypass
  • Female
  • Heart Atria / pathology
  • Heart Atria / surgery
  • Humans
  • Leiomyoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Leiomyoma / pathology
  • Leiomyoma / surgery*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Neoplasm, Residual
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Uterine Neoplasms / pathology
  • Uterine Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Vascular Surgical Procedures*
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / diagnostic imaging
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / pathology
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / surgery*