Primary Cardiac Tumor Presenting as Obstruction of the Left Ventricular Outflow Tract

Abstract

A transthoracic echocardiogram revealed 3 tumors in the left atrium of a 64-year-old woman, who died suddenly 8 months after resection of the tumors. Primary cardiac tumors are unusual and a case of postoperative left ventricular metastases of the atrial tumors resulting in left ventricular outflow tract obstruction is very rare occurrence. (Circ J 2004; 68: 961 - 963)