Functional Intracardiac Paraganglioma

Abstract

A 39-year-old man presented to the department of emergency medicine in Seoul National University Hospital complaining of chest pain, heart palpitation, and headache. Upon arriv-al, a computed tomography scan showed a 7.0 cm×6.2 cm lesion with the typical features of a paraganglioma. The patient was treated with an alpha-blocker and a beta-blocker prior to surgical intervention. We removed the tumor successfully, and histopathologic findings indicated that the tumor was indeed a paraganglioma. Since intracardiac para-ganglioma is a rare disease, we present this case together with a literature review.

Keywords

• heart neoplasms
• paraganglioma
• hypertension