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Primary cardiac angiosarcoma: A case report
Author(s) -
Ambrus Nóra,
Havasi Kálmán,
Kalapos Anita,
Sághy László,
Makai Attila,
Bogáts Gábor,
Hegedűs Zoltán,
Iványi Béla,
Besenyi Zsuzsanna,
Pápai Zsuzsanna,
Nagy László,
Forster Tamás,
Nemes Attila
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/echo.13808
Subject(s) - medicine , angiosarcoma , pericardial effusion , pericardium , heart transplantation , radiation therapy , biopsy , presentation (obstetrics) , cardiac tumors , surgery , hemangiosarcoma , radiology , chemotherapy , transplantation
Cardiac angiosarcomas are the most common primary malignant cardiac tumors in adults. The diagnosis is often delayed due to nonspecific clinical symptoms at presentation. The cornerstones of diagnosis are echocardiography and the histological evaluation of the cardiac biopsy. The knowledge on the treatment is limited; the outcomes of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, complete surgical removal, and heart transplantation are controversial. We report a 38‐year‐old woman with a primary heart tumor which infiltrated the right atrial wall and the pericardium and caused pericardial effusion. Angiosarcoma was verified histologically. The surgical excision could not be radical, and the patient died 3 months from diagnosis.