SynthesisJournal of cardiothoracic surgery2021
From pathogenesis to treatment, a systemic review of cardiac lipoma.
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- Giant pericardial lipoma arising from the right ventricular outflow tract.European heart journal. Case reports · 2026Article
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- Right Ventricular Lipoma With an Aneurysm-Like Appearance: A Case Report of Successful Surgical Resection.Case reports in surgery · 2026Article
- Primary cardiac lipoma: a clinicopathological analysis.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2025Article
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- Intracavitary cardiac lipoma: a benign tumour requiring a complex treatment: a case report.European heart journal. Case reports · 2025Article
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- Butterfly-Shaped Epicardial Lipoma of the Heart.Annals of thoracic surgery short reports · 2024Article
- Cardiac Computed Tomography as a Method of Diagnosing the Type of Cardiac Tumor-Example of Interatrial Septal Lipoma Filling the Right Atrium.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Report of a giant invasive, wall-penetrating cardiac lipoma.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2024Article
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- Cardiac Tumors: Review.Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery · 2024Review
- Multimodality Imaging in Right Heart Tumors: Proposed Algorithm towards an Appropriate Diagnosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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Abstract
Cardiac lipoma is an uncommon primary cardiac tumor. With the advancement of diagnostic methods and treatment techniques, more cases of cardiac lipomas have been reported and suggest that the entity previously widely thought to display classic features may also show atypical findings. A systemic review of the rare cardiac tumor was done by searching the literature of cardiac lipoma. We endeavor to summarize the clinical features of the rare disease from pathogenesis to treatment. Literature of cardiac lipoma was retrospectively searched through PubMed and 255 cases of cardiac lipoma were included into this analysis. Cardiac lipomas can occur anywhere within the heart, 53.1% were located within the cardiac chambers, 32.5% in the pericardium, 10,7% within the myocardium and 3.7% involved multiple structures. More than half of the reported cardiac lipomas (66%) may be clinically symptomatic, presenting with symptoms ranging from chest discomfort to syncope depending on their size and location as well as extent of myocardial involvement. Noninvasive cardiac imaging has replaced the role of autopsy and cardiothoracic surgery in detection and diagnosis of cardiac lipomas. Most symptomatic patients (83.7%) were treated by resection of cardiac lipomas and 68.3% of asymptomatic patients also underwentprophylactic resection. Overgrowth and myocardial infiltration of lipomas may result in unsuccessful resection. Recurrence of cardiac lipomas was rare but reported in a few cases. The early detection and accurate diagnosis of cardiac lipoma is of great significance in clinical management, to avoid an unfavourable outcome due to overgrowth.
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