Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction due to a leiomyosarcoma

Ann Card Anaesth. 2020 Jul-Sep;23(3):338-339. doi: 10.4103/aca.ACA_89_19.

Abstract

A 65-year-old female presenting with worsening dyspnea and notable weight loss were found to have a systolic murmur on physical examination. On workup with computed tomography (CT) angiogram, a solid mass was found extending from the inferior vena cava into the right ventricle. Transesophageal echocardiography demonstrated this mass extension causing right ventricular outflow tract obstruction. After surgical removal, the pathology of the mass was endometrial leiomyosarcoma.

Keywords: Inferior vena cava; sarcoma; transesophageal echocardiography.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Echocardiography / methods*
  • Female
  • Heart Neoplasms / complications*
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Ventricles / surgery
  • Humans
  • Leiomyosarcoma / complications*
  • Leiomyosarcoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Leiomyosarcoma / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / diagnostic imaging
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / etiology*
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / surgery