Open AccessHeart Osteosarcoma Presenting as Infective Endocarditis: A Case Report of a Patient With a Cardiac Pacemaker and Triple Malignancies
Author(s) -
Toivo Laks,
Katlin Kirik,
Enn Jõeste,
Sigurd Lax,
Anita Liiver,
Andrei Šamarin,
Л П Калинина,
Mai Puusepp,
Toomas Sarev
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of medical cases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1923-4163
pISSN - 1923-4155
DOI - 10.14740/jmc3333
Subject(s) - medicine , infective endocarditis , osteosarcoma , endocarditis , cardiac pacemaker , cardiac tumors , cardiology , surgery , pathology
Primary and metastatic cardiac sarcomas represent rare neoplasms with a variable clinical course. We present a rare case of an 84-year-old man with a cardiac pacemaker and heart osteosarcoma, hepatocellular and prostatic carcinoma, who was admitted with suspected symptoms of infective endocarditis. Findings of cardiac osteosarcoma in a patient with a pacemaker and three malignancies have not been reported before in the literature.