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Table 1 Cases reported in recent years

From: A rare inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor appearing both inside and outside the heart

First author (year)

Patient age

Patient sex

Symptom

Previous medical history

Tumor site

Other findings

Tumor maximal dimension

Treatment

Known follow-up

Bin Xu [5]

9 y

F

Lost conscious

None

AV

None

1.5 cm

Autopsy

Sudden death

Min Bao [6]

2 m

F

Fever, cough

None

MV, LA

None

2.0 cm

Resection

Not mentioned

Wenzong Luo [7]

55 y

F

Chest pain

None

LVOT

None

3.0 cm

Resection and AV reconstruction

2 y, NED

Aleksejus Zorinas [8]

43 y

F

Heart failure

Multi neoplasms

LVOT

None

3.0 cm

Resection

9 m, Dead

Ming-dan Deng [9]

45 y

F

None (found by body examination)

None

IVS

None

4.0 cm

Resection

12 m, NED

Aitizaz U Syed [10]

4 m

F

PE

None

RA

None

3.0 cm

Resection

6 m, NED

Tommaso D'Angelo [11]

9 y

M

Microhematuria, fever, dyspnea, lethargy

None

RV, PV

None

3.8 cm

Resection

2 m, NED

Diego Monzón Díaz [12]

66 y

M

Headache

HBP, AF

RV

None

3.0 cm

Resection

Not mentioned

Yasemin Nuran Donmez [13]

3 m

M

Poor feeding, shortness of breath

None

Intrapericardial

PT

6.0 cm

Resection

2 y, NED

Shoken Suzuki [14]

25 y

M

None

None

LVOT

None

6.0 cm

Autopsy

Sudden death

Niranjan Vijayakumar [15]

8 y

F

Right thigh and leg pain, fever

None

MV, LV, AV

Systemic embolism

N.A

Resection

3 m, NED

Weiwei Zhu [16]

7 y

M

Syncope

None

MV

Acute cerebral infarction

2.3 cm

Resection, mitral valvuloplasty in following 8th month

6 y, NED

Lauren M. McKinney [17]

2.5 m

F

None (Detected by prenatal ultrasound)

None

RA

TOF with absent PV

N.A

Resection

13 m, NED

B. M. Soares [18]

4 m

M

Facial, cervical, and upper thoracic edema

None

RA

SVCS, PE

4.0 cm

resection

36 m, NED

  1. AV aortic valve, F female, IVS intraventricular septum, LA left atrium, LVOT left ventricle outflow tract, m month, M male, MV mitral valve, N/A not available, NED no evidence of disease, PE pericardial effusion, PT pericardial tamponade, PV pulmonary valve, RA right atrium, RV right ventricle, SVCS superior vena cava syndrome, TOF tetralogy of Fallot, y year