Primary cardiac sarcoma is a rare malignant tumor that can present atypically as acute left-sided heart failure.
Consider rare sarcomas in unexplained acute left HF; extends phenotypic spectrum but remains hypothesis-generating.
Primary cardiac sarcomas are rare malignant tumors of the heart. Clinical features depend on the site of tumor and vary from symptoms of congestive heart failure to thromboembolism and arrhythmias. Echocardiography is helpful but definitive diagnosis is established by histopathology. Surgical resection is the mainstay of treatment, and the role of chemotherapy and radiotherapy is unclear. We report a case of primary cardiac sarcoma which presented with signs and symptoms of acute left-sided heart failure.
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