A Rare Case of a Primary Cardiac Tumor Presenting as Fatal Ventricular Tachycardia

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal.  Primary cardiac tumors are extremely uncommon. Here, the author of this article reports the case of a patient with a primary left ventricular interstitial tumor presenting with hemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia. In response to hemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator was inserted. One month after defibrillator implantation, the patient developed episodes of high ventricular tachycardia that could not be effectively terminated by catheter radiofrequency ablation, thus further confirming that the ventricular tachycardia was induced by the left ventricular interstitial tumor. 

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Article reference: A Rare Case of a Primary Cardiac Tumor Presenting as Fatal Ventricular Tachycardia, Guo, Xueya, Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, 2022, https://doi.org/10.15212/CVIA.2022.0014