Brain tumor treatment successful in healing rare heart condition
Friday, March 25, 2011 - 11:03
in Health & Medicine
Serendipity may have saved 32-year-old Jamie Arliss life. A rare tumor discovered in her heart had stumped cardiologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center. They wanted to remove the mass, but traditional techniques failed because of its size and location. A heart transplant was under consideration, that is, until a neurosurgeon suggested treating it like it was a brain tumor.