A rare cardiac inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor involving aortic valve

Wenzong Luo; Peng Teng; Yiming Ni

doi:10.1186/s13019-017-0577-5

A rare cardiac inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor involving aortic valve

J Cardiothorac Surg. 2017 Mar 2;12(1):13. doi: 10.1186/s13019-017-0577-5.

Authors

Wenzong Luo¹, Peng Teng¹, Yiming Ni^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
² Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. tengpeng@zju.edu.cn.
³ , 79#, Qingchun Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310000, China. tengpeng@zju.edu.cn.

Abstract

Background: Cardiac inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is an extremely rare benign entity which constitutes a small proportion of primary cardiac tumor.

Case presentation: We present a rare case of a 55-year-old symptomatic male patient with a rare cardiac IMT causing left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction. The patient received complete tumor resection immediately with uneventful postoperative hospital course.

Conclusion: To our best knowledge, cardiac IMT involving aortic valve in older adult causing LVOT obstruction has never been reported before. Additionally, we make a literature review on IMT, focusing on the various clinical presentation of this unpredictable tumor.

Keywords: Aortic valve; Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor; Middle age.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aortic Valve / diagnostic imaging*
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography
Granuloma, Plasma Cell / diagnosis*
Heart Diseases / diagnosis*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged