Right atrium hemangioma in patient with history of mixed-thrombus surgery (original) (raw)

2019, Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Primary cardiac neoplasms are rare, cardiac hemangiomas are even rarer, and a mixed thrombus followed by a primary cardiac hemangioma is exceptionally rare epidemiology. Here, we report the case of a man with a right atrium mixed-thrombus surgical history who went on to develop a cardiac hemangioma. K E Y W O R D S cardiac hemangioma, cardiac primary tumor, thrombus 1 | INTRODUCTION A cardiac mass can be an intracardiac thrombus, primary or secondary cardiac tumors, cysts, or valvular vegetations of infective endocarditis. 1 Primary cardiac neoplasms are rare, around 0.28% at autopsy and cardiac hemangiomas are even rarer, accounting for only 5% of those. 2 As a result, hemangiomas are often misdiagnosed as thrombi or cardiac myxomas. 3,4 However, a cardiac thrombus followed by a cardiac hemangioma has never been reported before, at home or abroad. Here, we describe the case of a man with a right atrium mixed-thrombus surgical history who later developed a cardiac hemangioma.

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