[Surgery for Cardiac Rhabdomyosarcoma in Jehovah's Witnesses:Report of a Case].

Abstract

Primary cardiac malignant neoplasms are rare, and rhabdomyosarcoma is the second most common cardiac sarcoma. We herein report a rare case of 70-year-old female with a cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma in the posterior wall of the left atrium. She was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. We performed surgical tumor resection and mitral valve replacement because of apparent tumor invasion to the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve without blood transfusion. Postoperative course was uneventful and she was scheduled to undergo proton beam therapy. This is the first case report of surgically treated cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma in a Jehovah's Witness.