Heart Tumor

Tumor is an abnormal growth, can be a cancer (maligna, malignant) or nonkanker (benigna, tame).

Heart Tumor is divided into 2 groups:

• Primary Tumor: comes from in the heart and can occur on any network from the heart
  This can be a tumor or cancer non cancer and usually rare.
• Secondary Tumor: comes from the other part of body (usually the lung, breast, blood and skin), which spread to the heart and always be violence.
  Secondary tumor 30-40 times more frequently found.

MIKSOMA

Miksoma is a benign tumor, which forms the heart are usually not organized and its density such as jelly (gelatin).

• 50% of the primary tumor is miksoma.
• 75% of miksoma found in the left atrium (the heart chamber that receives blood rich in oxygen from the lungs).

Miksoma in the left of atrium often grow with a stem and can swing freely with the flow of blood as the ball is bound by rope.

At the time of swinging, tumor moving in and out the mitral valve near it. This can swing open the valve plug and repeatedly, so that blood flow and stop alternately.

Attack congestion tuberculosis or fainting and shortness of breath can occur when people standing as interesting style of gravity to the bottom of the tumor and clog valves; symptoms can be reduced with this lie.

Tumor can damage the mitral valve, so that the flow of blood through it become leak, product the sound of the murmur that can be heard through the stethoscope.

Miksoma or part of a blood clot that originated from the surface miksoma can be broken, and then follow the blood stream and clog the blood vessel. Symptoms depending on which the blood vessel that is clogged.

If it clog the blood vessel leading to the brain causes stroke, while the stoppage of blood vessel in the lungs can cause pain and coughing with blood.

Other symptoms of miksoma is:

• Fever
• A decrease in body weight
• Cold
• Pain in the fingers of the hands and feet due to cold weather (Raynaud phenomenon)
• Anemia
• The amount of blood thrombosis that is low.

GAMBAR Miksoma atrium left atrium right Miksoma


Other Primary Tumor

Other benign heart tumor that is more rare are fibroma and rabdomioma, which can grow directly from the cellular network of fibrosis and heart muscle cells.

Rabdomioma occur in infancy or childhood, usually called sklerosis tuberus.
Usually children will survive less than 1 year.

Symtomps of Heart Tumor

Heart tumor can doesn't causes symptoms or can cause a deviation in the function of the heart, such as other heart disease, which can result in fatal.

Aberration functions of the heart that can occur are:

• Heart failure that occurs in sudden
• Heart rhythm irregularity that occurs in sudden
• Decrease in blood pressure that occurs suddenly is due to bleeding in perikardium (pericardium)

Diagnosis

Heart tumor is difficult to be diagnosed as it chronological that is very rare and because the symptoms are similar to other diseases.

Usually, doctors have reason to suspect the existence of heart tumor. For example, if someone suffering from cancer in other places, but about the symptoms of heart aberration function, then a tumor is suspected heart.

Several checks are also used to diagnose heart tumor:

1. Echocardiography (heart examination by using sound waves that is bounced back through the chest wall)
2. Echocardiography transesofageal (heart examination by using sound waves that is bounced back through the esophagus)
3. Photo rays after a radioactive material injection.
4. CT scan and MRI scan

If the tumor has been found, an example network taken with the lapse of a special use, to determine the type of tumor and type of treatment that will be done.
Medicine

Primary single heart tumor non cancer can usually appointed through surgery and be able to heal people.
Surgery is not done on the tumor which is more than one or on a very large tumor.

Primary and secondary tumor is malignant can not be cured, only the symptoms can be overcome.