Ventricular tachycardia as a first manifestation of right ventricular myxoma--a case presentation

Angiology. 1991 Dec;42(12):1002-5. doi: 10.1177/000331979104201210.

Abstract

The authors present a case of a thirty-nine-year-old white man in good health who developed episodes of ventricular tachycardia as a first manifestation of a right ventricular myxoma, which was diagnosed by two-dimensional echocardiogram and then resected with no complications and total disappearance of the cardiac arrhythmia. After reviewing the literature they consider the present case as a rare manifestation of an infrequent location of an uncommon disease.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Echocardiography
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heart Neoplasms / complications*
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myxoma / complications*
  • Myxoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Tachycardia / diagnosis
  • Tachycardia / etiology*