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<journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Korean Circ J</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">KCJ</journal-id>
<journal-title>Korean Circulation Journal</journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">1738-5520</issn>
<issn pub-type="epub">1738-5555</issn>
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<publisher-name>The Korean Society of Cardiology</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4070/kcj.2010.40.7.352</article-id>
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<subject>Images in Cardiovascular Medicine</subject>
</subj-group>
</article-categories>
<title-group>
<article-title>Intracardiac Tumor Presenting as Complete Atrioventricular Block</article-title>
</title-group>

<contrib-group>

<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Yoon</surname>
<given-names>Sung Woo</given-names>
</name>
<degrees>MD</degrees>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
</contrib>

<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
<contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1528-2739</contrib-id>
<name>
<surname>Ahn</surname>
<given-names>Sung-Gyun</given-names>
</name>
<degrees>MD</degrees>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
</contrib>

<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Yang</surname>
<given-names>Kyung Ho</given-names>
</name>
<degrees>MD</degrees>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
</contrib>

<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Han</surname>
<given-names>Na</given-names>
</name>
<degrees>MD</degrees>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
</contrib>

<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Jeong</surname>
<given-names>Yong Suk</given-names>
</name>
<degrees>MD</degrees>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
</contrib>

<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Kim</surname>
<given-names>Young Bok</given-names>
</name>
<degrees>MD</degrees>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
</contrib>

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<aff id="A1"><label>1</label>Department of Cardiology, Sunlin Hospital, Pohang, Korea.</aff>
<aff id="A2"><label>2</label>Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Inje University, Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea.</aff>

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<corresp>Correspondence: Sung-Gyun Ahn, MD, Department of Cardiology, Sunlin Hospital, 69-7 Daesin-dong, Buk-gu, Pohang 791-704, Korea. Tel: 82-54-245-5305, Fax: 82-54-245-5311, <email>andesdr@yahoo.com</email></corresp>
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<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>07</month>
<year>2010</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>26</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2010</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>40</volume>
<issue>7</issue>
<fpage>352</fpage>
<lpage>353</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="received">
<day>21</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2009</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>23</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>2009</year>
</date>
<date date-type="accepted">
<day>02</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2009</year>
</date>
</history>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2010 The Korean Society of Cardiology</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2010</copyright-year>
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<p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0</ext-link>) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p>
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  <p>A 68-year old man presented with a 1-month history of shortness of breath. He was a heavy smoker. His blood pressure was normal but his pulse rate was 40 beats per minute. A chest X-ray showed normal cardiac size without abnormal pulmonary lesions. The electrocardiogram showed sinus tachycardia with complete AV block (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Fig. 1A</xref>). He was scheduled to undergo permanent pacemaker implantation because of complete AV block associated with dyspnea. However, a somewhat echolucent inhomogenous mass involving the interatrial septum and protruding toward both atria was found on an echocardiogram (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Fig. 1B</xref>). Chest computed tomography revealed a large non-enhanced hypodense mass invading the atria, the ventricles, the pulmonary trunk, and the left main bronchus, suggesting a malignant tumor of cardiacorigin such as an angiosarcoma,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1)</xref> fibrosarcoma,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2)</xref> rhabdomyosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3)</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4)</xref> or metastatic cancer such as from a lymphoma (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Fig. 1C</xref>).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5)</xref> Histologic confirmation was not done because of the patient's refusal. Two month later, he died of progressively worsened heart failure caused by rapid tumor growth.</p>

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  <p>An electrocardiogram showing sinus tachycardia with complete AV block (A). An echolucent inhomogenous mass (arrows) involving the interatrial septum and protruding toward both atria was found on the echocardiogram (B). Chest computed tomography revealed a large non-enhanced hypodense mass invading the atria, the ventricles, and the pulmonary trunk (C). AV: atrioventricular.</p>
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