COMBINED SURGERY IN A PATIENT WITH INTRACARDIAC LEIOMYOMATOSIS: A CLINICAL CASE

Abstract

HighlightsIntravascular leiomyoma with heart extension is a rare occurring condition. According to the available data, the number of cases does not exceed 30 despite many years of studies. Often cardiac hospitals cannot establish the clinical picture, so the surgeon removes only cardiac tumors, which inevitably leads to the recurrence of the tumor after a few months. AbstractLeiomyomatosis is an extremely rare disease that occurs in women of childbearing age. The development of the malignant tumor is preceded by the removal of the uterine fibroids or hysterectomy. Radical surgery guarantees the complete absence of relapses, while partial removal leads to relapses in a third of cases. We performed a reoperation on a 35-year-old patient who underwent partial removal of leiomyoma in the right atrium but 3 months later had a tumor causing severe obstruction of the right heart.