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Complete surgical resection of a recurrent giant cardiac fibroma successfully eliminated ventricular tachycardia with no evidence of recurrence at 2-year follow-up.
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This case demonstrates that complete surgical resection of a recurrent giant cardiac fibroma is feasible and effective at eliminating associated life-threatening ventricular tachycardia.
May support resection for recurrent fibroma-associated VT in select cases; hypothesis-generating from Level 5 evidence.
Cardiac fibromas are rare benign tumors usually seen in the pediatric population. Generally, long-term survival after surgical resection is favorable, and recurrence of fibroma has been hardly reported. Herein, we report a case of a 34-year-old woman who presented with ventricular tachycardia 21 years after resection of a cardiac fibroma and was found to have a recurrent giant cardiac fibroma. We performed a complete resection of the recurrent fibroma. At the 2-year follow-up, she remains asymptomatic with no evidence of ventricular tachycardia or recurrence of fibroma.
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Kusajima et al. (2015) conducted a case report in Recurrent cardiac fibroma (n=1). Complete surgical resection was evaluated on Clinical status and tumor recurrence at 2-year follow-up. Complete surgical resection of a recurrent giant cardiac fibroma successfully eliminated ventricular tachycardia with no evidence of recurrence at 2-year follow-up.
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