Cardiac Vascular Hamartoma: Adult Diagnosis and Cardiac Reconstruction

Ilaria Franzese; Florida Gripshi; Alessandro Fiocco; Elisabetta Rauber; Danilo Ruggiero; Rossana Bussani; Enzo Mazzaro

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.03.042

Cardiac Vascular Hamartoma: Adult Diagnosis and Cardiac Reconstruction

Ann Thorac Surg. 2023 Mar;115(3):e67-e69. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.03.042. Epub 2022 Mar 31.

Authors

Ilaria Franzese¹, Florida Gripshi², Alessandro Fiocco³, Elisabetta Rauber⁴, Danilo Ruggiero⁴, Rossana Bussani⁵, Enzo Mazzaro⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital of Trieste, Trieste, Italy. Electronic address: ilaria.franzese.md@gmail.com.
² Division of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital of Trieste, Trieste, Italy; Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy.
³ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital of Trieste, Trieste, Italy; Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
⁴ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
⁵ Institute of Pathological Anatomy, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.

PMID: 35367435
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.03.042

Abstract

Cardiac hamartoma is a rare benign tumor of the heart, and the vascular type is an extremely rare histologic diagnosis. A small number of cases have previously been described in childhood. We report the case of a 63-year-old woman with an incidentally detected cardiac mass that was finally diagnosed as vascular hamartoma. Approval for publication was obtained from the patient.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Female
Hamartoma* / diagnosis
Heart
Humans
Middle Aged
Plastic Surgery Procedures*
Thorax
Tomography, X-Ray Computed