Anesthesia Considerations in Combined Open Heart Cardiac Myofibroblastic Tumor Excision and Living Donor Liver Transplantation

INFLAMMATORY myofibroblastic tumor (IMT), an uncommon lesion comprising spindle to stellate myofibroblasts, may involve many organs but rarely the heart.1,2 Although difficult to diagnose clinically, IMTs are detected by constitutional symptoms resulting in oversecretion of cytokines.3,4 Cardiac IMTs generally occur in children and commonly present as intracavitary masses of endocardial origin. Typically, cardiac IMTs are biologically inactive, but the mass may result in severe cardiac pump dysfunction and prove fatal.

Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia - November 28, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Shreya Bharat Shah, Shashank Pandey, Akhil Kumar, Amitabh Dutta, Jayashree Sood Tags: Case Report Source Type: research