October 1, 2017MedicineOpen Access

Primary cardiac angiosarcoma

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1 patient, a 52-year-old woman with primary cardiac angiosarcoma presenting with a 7 cm × 5 cm × 5 cm…

Design

Case_report

Follow-up

10 months

Authors

RZRuiping ZhangShanxi Medical University LLLu LiCentral South University XLXinming LiGuangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences

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Implication

Multimodal imaging aids late diagnosis of cardiac angiosarcoma; leaves open need for earlier detection strategies in larger cohorts.

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Population

1 patient, a 52-year-old woman with primary cardiac angiosarcoma presenting with a 7 cm × 5 cm × 5 cm space-occupying lesion in the right atrium.

Intervention

Chemotherapy with docetaxel for 2 cycles, followed by antiangiogenesis-targeted therapy combined with chemotherapy for 3 months.

Outcome

Disease progression and survivalhard clinical

This case highlights the aggressive nature of primary cardiac angiosarcoma and its poor response to chemotherapy and targeted therapy when unresectable.

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Zhang et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a71540cce524a4339c4e394 https://doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000007352

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Echocardiography

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Primary cardiac angiosarcoma

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Primary cardiac angiosarcoma

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