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Left ventricular hamartoma associated with ventricular tachycardia
M H Dinh1, J M Galvin, T H Aretz
1Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 1, 2001
Abstract:
Cardiac hamartomas are a rare type of benign tumor affecting the heart. We describe a 33-year-old patient who presented with a wide complex tachycardia. Diagnostic imaging revealed a mass in the patient's left ventricular wall, near the apex of the heart. The mass was surgically resected and appeared benign. Its pathology was that of a hamartoma of mature cardiac myocytes. Postoperative electrophysiology evaluation showed no inducible focus and the patient remains alive and asymptomatic after 2 years of follow-up.