Heart transplantation treatment for a malignant cardiac granular cell tumor: 33 months of survival

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2007 Oct;6(5):679-81. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2007.151811. Epub 2007 Jul 16.

Abstract

A malignant granular cell tumor is a high-grade sarcoma with a high rate of metastasis, local recurrence and short survival. We describe a patient who underwent orthotopic heart transplantation due to a metastatic unresectable malignant granular cell tumor. At thirty-three months following this procedure she is alive and free of recurrence.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Disease-Free Survival
  • Female
  • Granular Cell Tumor / secondary
  • Granular Cell Tumor / surgery*
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Heart Transplantation*
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Time Factors
  • Treatment Outcome