Reversible right ventricular outflow tract compression by immunoblastic sarcoma

• Published in: The American journal of cardiology Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 239 - 240
• Main Authors: Come, Patricia C., Come, Steven E., Riley, Marilyn F., Carl, Lisa V., Nakao, Shoichiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 1985; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Echocardiography; Humans; Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin - complications; Male; Mediastinal Neoplasms - complications; Medical sciences; Pneumology; Pulmonary Valve Stenosis - etiology; Tumors of the respiratory system and mediastinum; Heart; Human; Compression; Respiratory disease; Mediastinum; Right ventricle; Cardiovascular disease; Complication; Tumor; Malignant hemopathy; Hemodynamics; Outflow obstruction
• ISSN: 0002-9149; 1879-1913
• DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(85)90343-1

Various types of tumors, including lymphomas, carcinomas, sarcomas, thymic cysts, thymomas and fibrolipomas, have been detected by echocardiography within the pericardial space or adjacent to the parietal pericardium. 1–6 Echocardiographic recognition of compression of cardiac chambers by extracardiac tumor has been reported in several patients. 1–4 In the patient reported herein, who had an immunoblastic sarcoma, abnormalities indicative of right ventricular (RV) outflow tract obstruction on physical examination, imaging echocardiography and Doppler echocardiography disappeared in association with complete remission of tumor during chemotherapy.