heart murmurs/neoplasms

A 36-year-old asymptomatic man, who two months before had a normal clinical examination, developed two loud, grade 5/6 harsh systolic and diastolic murmurs, audible over the entire precordium. Two-dimensional echocardiography revealed a huge tumoral mass, attached to the right atrium near the

Merkel cell tumor is an unusual, aggressive malignancy of skin that has been considered to be derived from cutaneous Merkel cells. We are reporting a case of Merkel cell tumor overlying the left scapula with metastases to the thoracic spine and pleura. The tumor was found incidentally in a

METHODS A 59-year-old man with a 4-week history of dyspnea, coughing, and chest discomfort was referred to hospital for further evaluation. Moreover, he reported fever and fatigue. There were neither cardiovascular risk factors nor drug medication. 6 months earlier, a deep vein thrombosis of his

We report a rare case of a 21-year-old male who had myxoma originating from septal band of the right ventricle. He was otherwise healthy young man without any associated symptom. His cardiac murmur was found incidentally upon routine health control mass examination. Subsequently, echocardiography

A 74-year-old man was referred to the outpatient clinic of the cardiology department with progressive dyspnoea and a new heart murmur. Physical examination of the chest wall showed a hard immobile and painless sternal swelling at the level of the angulus of Ludovici. There was an increase of the

BACKGROUND Thoracic lymphangioma is a rare benign disease representing only 0.7-4.5% of all mediastinal tumors. Its etiology is currently unknown. Most are asymptomatic at first, and the condition is common in the pediatric age. We present a case to document this rare disease and describe the

Primary tumors of the heart are rare, and a quarter of these tumors prove to be histologically malignant. Benign and malignant primary as well as secondary heart tumors belong to the differential diagnosis when a new heart murmur, heart rhythm disturbances, or cardiac insufficiency appear. In the

This is a case report of an uncommon form of subaortic stenosis caused by an abnormal accessory mitral leaflet simulating a left ventricular outflow tract tumor. A 5-year-old boy with a systolic heart murmur underwent cardiac catheterization which demonstrated a subaortic stenosis with a 90 mmHg

Despite the lengthy differential diagnosis of causes of cardiac murmurs, the association of a mediastinal mass and a continuous murmur is very rare. We report herein a case of a mediastinal tumor and continuous murmur where transthoracic echocardiography provided clear differential diagnosis and

A case of ventricular septal tumor diagnosed in 7-month-old boy is reported. An echocardiogram was performed for investigation of a heart murmur in an otherwise healthy infant. He remained asymptomatic, and the tumor had a very slow growth. When the boy was 9 years old, partial surgical excision was

BACKGROUND The advancement of noninvasive imaging methods has resulted in the increase in diagnosis of heart neoplasms. However, the literature has few studies involving primary cardiac neoplasms in children. OBJECTIVE To retrospectively review cases of primary heart neoplasms in children,

BACKGROUND Rhabdomyoma is the most frequent primary cardiac tumour in children (about 50% of all cardiac neoplasms in this population). Fibroma, myxoma, teratoma and haemangioma are less frequent. OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical presentation, diagnosis and follow-up of children diagnosed with

We analysed the clinical manifestations and echocardiographic findings of cardiac metastases in 18 lung cancer cases treated in our hospital in fifteen years. All cases were chest x-ray and bronchoscopy proved lung cancer patient with cardiac metastases diagnosed by pericardial effusion cytology and