Abstract

BATISTA FILHO, Luiz Alberto Cerqueira; COIMBRA, Marcelo Rocha; ALMEIDA, Waleria Garcia Cordeiro de  and  FREITAS, Denise Lemes de. Huge right ventricular mass in a 25-year-old male patient. Cardiovasc. metab. sci [online]. 2022, vol.33, n.1, pp.32-35.  Epub May 22, 2023. ISSN 2954-3835.  https://doi.org/10.35366/104036.

A young male patient came to the emergency department of Hospital Santa Marcelina de Cidade Tiradentes with signs of congestive heart failure and loss of appetite. A two-dimensional echocardiogram was performed, and a huge right ventricular mass was detected. Cardiac masses are always a challenge, and this article provides an overview of the subject.

Keywords : Cardiac tumors; sarcoma; cardio-oncology; myxoma; echocardiography.

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