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European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access originally published online on June 17, 2008
European Journal of Echocardiography 2008 9(6):833-834; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen173
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

A highly unusual right atrial mass presented in two women

M. Leitman1,*, R. Kuperstein2, B. Medalion3, A. Stamler3, E. Porat3, S. Rosenblatt1, E. Konen4, R. Krakover1 and Z. Vered1

1 Department of Cardiology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin 70300, Israel
2 Department of Cardiology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
3 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel
4 Department of Radiology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Received 18 January 2008; accepted after revision 7 May 2008; online publish-ahead-of-print 17 June 2008.

* Corresponding author. Tel: 972-8-977-9735/6; fax: 972-8-922-8141. E-mail address: marina.leitman{at}gmail.com


  Abstract

Intravenous leiomyomatosis is a rare, benign neoplasm of the uterine, affecting adult women. We report two cases in whom intravenous leiomyomatosis extended through the inferior vena cava into the right heart chambers and the pulmonary artery. Both patients underwent staged operation with excision of the cardiac and primary tumour. The differential diagnosis of a right atrial mass in middle-aged women should include intravenous leiomyomatosis.

Keywords: Intravenous leiomyomatosis; Right atrial mass


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