Intravenous Leiomyomatosis with Right Heart Involvement—A Report of 4 Cases and Literature Review
Intravenous leiomyomatosis(IVL) is a rare benign neoplasm which originates from the smooth muscle cells and is usually confined to the pelvic venous system.Rarely,intracaval and intracardiac extension has been described.Death can occur as a result of intracardiac involvement.We reported 4 cases of I...
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          | Published in | Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Medical sciences Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 586 - 588 | 
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| Format | Journal Article | 
| Language | English | 
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          Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    
        01.08.2011
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| ISSN | 1672-0733 1993-1352  | 
| DOI | 10.1007/s11596-011-0494-0 | 
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| Summary: | Intravenous leiomyomatosis(IVL) is a rare benign neoplasm which originates from the smooth muscle cells and is usually confined to the pelvic venous system.Rarely,intracaval and intracardiac extension has been described.Death can occur as a result of intracardiac involvement.We reported 4 cases of IVL with right heart involvement(intracardiac leiomyomatosis,ICL).Three of them suffered recurrent sudden syncope,and the other one was totally asymptomatic.All of them were successfully treated through one-stage operation under extracorporeal circulation. | 
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| Bibliography: | Intravenous leiomyomatosis(IVL) is a rare benign neoplasm which originates from the smooth muscle cells and is usually confined to the pelvic venous system.Rarely,intracaval and intracardiac extension has been described.Death can occur as a result of intracardiac involvement.We reported 4 cases of IVL with right heart involvement(intracardiac leiomyomatosis,ICL).Three of them suffered recurrent sudden syncope,and the other one was totally asymptomatic.All of them were successfully treated through one-stage operation under extracorporeal circulation. intravenous leiomyomatosis; intracardiac leiomyomatosis; cardiac tumor; surgical management 42-1679/R Yiqing LI,Fei MEI,Chao YANG #,Ping LV,Chenxi OUYANG,Bi JIN Department of Vascular Surgery,Union Hospital,Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430022,China ObjectType-Case Study-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-4 content type line 23 ObjectType-Report-1 ObjectType-Article-3  | 
| ISSN: | 1672-0733 1993-1352  | 
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11596-011-0494-0 |