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Surgical resection of a cardiac mass in a 72-year-old hemodialysis patient revealed a calcified amorphous tumor, a rare non-neoplastic intracardiac tumor.
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May warrant including calcified amorphous tumor in cardiac mass differentials for hemodialysis patients; leaves open questions on prevalence and management.
We present a case of cardiac calcified amorphous tumor, a rare intracardiac non-neoplastic tumor, in a hemodialysis patient. A 72-year-old woman with no history of thromboembolic, malignant, or inflammatory disease presented with dyspnea. Echocardiography revealed a highly echoic, slightly mobile mass with an acoustic shadow originating from the mitral subvalvular apparatus, extending to the left ventricular outflow tract. She underwent surgical resection of the mass through the aortic valve, which was easily excised from the papillary muscle and chordae tendineae. Histopathologic examination revealed nodular calcium deposits on a background of amorphous degenerated fibrin material, consistent with calcified amorphous tumor.
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Seo et al. (2015) conducted a case report in Cardiac calcified amorphous tumor (n=1). Surgical resection was evaluated on Histopathologic diagnosis. Surgical resection of a cardiac mass in a 72-year-old hemodialysis patient revealed a calcified amorphous tumor, a rare non-neoplastic intracardiac tumor.
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