Successful operative treatment of uterine leiomyoma with extensive intravenous extension to the IVC, right heart, and pulmonary arteries

Abstract

Introduction: Intravenous extension of benign uterine leiomyomata (‘fibroids’), in the absence of discrete metastatic disease has rarely been reported. ‘Fibroids’ remain one of the most common premenopausal uterine pathologies.

Methods and results: We report the diagnosis and multidisciplinary led operative management of a 52-year-old woman with a histologically benign, but biologically aggressive, uterine leiomyoma with intravenous extension to the inferior vena cava (IVC), right heart and pulmonary arteries.

Conclusions: Total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy combined with exploration of the sub-hepatic IVC and heart under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest achieved its successful macroscopic clearance.

Keywords:

• Uterine leiomyoma
• fibroid
• intravascular extension
• intracardiac extension
• IVC

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.