Heart Disease Tumors
DEFINITIONS
The tumor is an abnormal growth, cancer (malignant, malignant tumors) or non cancerous (Benin, benign).
Tumors of the heart is divided into 2 groups:
# Primary tumor stem from the heart and can occur in any part of the heart tissue
These tumors can be cancerous or non cancerous and rarely in the Rule.
# Secondary tumors: from other parts of the body) (usually the lung, breast, blood and skin, which spread to the heart and is always in the form of malignancy.
Secondary tumors 30-40 times more frequent.
MIKSOMA
Miksoma are benign tumors that form the heart of the rule is not illegal, and density, jelly (gelatin).
50% of the primary tumor miksoma.
75% of miksoma located in the left atrium (chambers of the heart, oxygen-rich blood from the lungs is replaced).
Miksoma in the left atrium is often grown stem cells and can rotate freely to follow the flow of blood as a ball attached by a cable.
In the swing era, the tumor moves in and out of the mitral valve to close. These variations can clog the valve and then open again, so that blood flow stops and turns.
Attacks pulmonary congestion or difficulty breathing, and fainting may occur when a person called by the severity of the tumor depends on and close the valve, these problems can be alleviated by lying down.
A tumor can damage the mitral valve, so that the blood supply, causing losses of noise audible murmur through a stethoscope.
Miksoma or part of a blood clot on the surface may miksoma pause, and then follow the flow of blood and clog arteries. Symptoms depend on the blocked blood vessels.
If the blockage of blood vessels in the brain causes a stroke, while the blockage of blood vessels can cause pain in the lungs and coughing up blood.
Miksoma Other symptoms include:
- Fever
- Weight Loss
- Cold
- Pain in the fingers and toes from the cold (Raynaud’s phenomenon)
- Anemia
- The number of platelets in the blood.
Miksoma left atrium right atrium Miksoma
OTHER primary
Other benign tumors of the heart are much less common is the rhabdomyoma, fibroma and that can be directly extracted from connective tissue cells and heart muscle cells.
Rhabdomyoma occurs in infancy or childhood, usually as tuberus sclerosis.
In general, the surviving children under 1 year.
Symptoms
Cardiac tumors may cause no symptoms or may cause cardiac dysfunction as other diseases of the heart, which can be fatal.
Cardiac dysfunction that can occur are:
- Heart failure occurs suddenly
- Heart rhythm problems that occurs suddenly
- Reduction in blood pressure that occurs suddenly due to bleeding into the pericardium (the lining of the heart).
Diagnosis
Cardiac tumors difficult to diagnose because it happens very rarely, and because the symptoms resemble other diseases.
Suggest a principle, physicians should, therefore, to a heart tumor.
For example, if a person has cancer elsewhere, but complained of symptoms of cardiac dysfunction, suspected cardiac tumor.
Some tests are also used for the diagnosis of cardiac tumors:
1. Echocardiography (cardiac, reflected sound waves through the chest wall)
2. Transesophageal echocardiography (cardiac exams using sound waves reflected from the esophagus)
3. X-ray performed after injection of radioactive material
4. CT and MRI.
If it is determined that the tumor tissue samples with a special tube, the type of tumor and type of treatment will be determined.
TREATMENT
Primary cardiac tumors are usually only nonkanker be removed surgically and the patient can be cured.
The operation was not in the tumor, which takes place over a very large tumors.
The primary and secondary malignant tumors can be cured, symptoms can be overcome.
