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- Primary benign tumors, like heart lipomas, are rare and often asymptomatic, making diagnosis challenging.
- A 66-year-old woman underwent successful surgery for a large left atrial lipoma and coronary artery disease without using cardiopulmonary bypass, leading to a good recovery.
- Imaging techniques like CT scans provide essential information for diagnosing these tumors, and surgery is the recommended treatment.
Article Abstract
Background: Primary benign tumors of the heart are extremely rare and usually difficult to diagnose for their asymptomatic signs.
Case Presentation: A 66-year-old woman was admitted for shortness of breath caused by a large left atrial lipoma combined with coronary artery disease. Next, we successfully performed simultaneous curative surgery for the large cardiac lipoma and coronary artery bypass grafting with a "starfish" and no cardiopulmonary bypass was used.The patient was discharged on the eighth postoperative day in a good condition, and has remained asymptomatic at the 5-month follow-up.
Conclusions: Lipomas are rare and difficult to diagnose, while computed tomography and computed tomography angiography can give us very important clues. Surgery is necessary. We can introduce a "starfish"to the operationand the cardiopulmonary bypass is unnecessary for the left lipoma with coronary artery disease.
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