Journal of Geriatric Cardiology 2014;(4):354-356

doi:10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2014.04.011

Leiomyosarcoma with coronary fistulae and ventricular septal perforation:A case study

Dangsheng HUANG ; Yumei WANG ; Yu CHEN

Keywords

Cardiac leiomyosarcoma; Coronary fistulae; Ventricular septal perforation; Heart failure

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Coronary fistulae and ventricular septal perforation are very rare clinically, and even less caused by cardiac leiomyosarcoma. A case is reported that a 67-year-old female had cardiac leiomyosarcoma with progressive heart failure and coronary fistulae and ventricular septal perforation. This case was special since all ante-mortem examinations and cardiac surgery failed to detect the presence of any abnormal car-diac mass. Therefore, the malignant cardiac tumors could appear in an invasive form without mass and be one of the causes of the coronary fistulae and ventricular septal perforation.