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Ann Thorac Surg 2003;76:1305-1307
© 2003 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case report

Successful resection of a symptomatic right ventricular lipoma

Sonja Schrepfer, MD*a, Tobias Deuse, MDa, Christian Detter, MDa, Hendrik Treede, MDa, Andreas Koops, MDb, Dieter H. Boehm, MDa, Stephan Willems, MDc, François Lacour-Gayet, MDa, Hermann Reichenspurner, MD, PhDa

a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hamburg, Germany
b Department of Radiology, and Hamburg, Germany
c Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Accepted for publication March 4, 2003.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Schrepfer, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany
e-mail: tobias.deuse{at}t-online.de

We report the case of a 31-year-old woman with a 4-year history of recurrent palpitations, presenting with an increased frequency of paroxysms caused by ventricular tachycardias during pregnancy. A cardiac tumor of unknown origin infiltrating the right ventricle was diagnosed. Three weeks after prophylactic abrasion the tumor was totally excised with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass including restoration of the right ventricular wall and the tricuspid valve. Histology confirmed diagnosis of a benign cardiac lipoma. The postoperative course was uneventful and the patient was discharged 7 days after surgery. There was no episode of ventricular tachycardias during the 6-month follow-up.






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