Partial surgical resection can provide symptomatic relief in patients with extensive pericardial lipomatosis.
May warrant consideration for symptomatic relief in rare extensive pericardial lipomatosis; single case leaves durability and generalizability open.
The chest radiographic, echocardiographic (transthoracic and transesophageal), MRI, CT and cardiac catheterization findings in a 72-year-old patient with extensive pericardial lipomatosis are presented. Diastolic pressures in the left heart were elevated. The massive lipomatous mass was partially resected surgically with good symptomatic relief. Histologically the neoplasm consisted of mature non-malignant adipose tissue. Cushing's Syndrome was absent.
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