Mechanical aspiration thrombectomy with a Penumbra catheter can be an effective treatment for acute stroke caused by a cardiac sarcoma tumor embolus.
The most common primary malignant cardiac tumor is the cardiac sarcoma, which is mesenchymal in origin. This case report describes a patient with hyperacute stroke caused by cardiac sarcoma who underwent rapid recanalization through mechanical aspiration thrombectomy with Penumbra catheter.
Byon et al. (Thu,) studied this question.