Key result
Surgical resection followed by salvage chemotherapy was used to treat a rare case of a huge biatrial cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma in a 49-year-old woman.
Why the study?
Primary malignant cardiac neoplasms are rare, and cardiac sarcomas occupying both atria are extremely rare.
Case Report (n=1)
Surgical resection is recommended as first-line therapy for rare biatrial cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma to clarify diagnosis and relieve symptoms, despite a dismal prognosis.
Supports feasibility of resection in rare biatrial rhabdomyosarcoma; hypothesis-generating for first-line surgical approach.
Primary malignant neoplasms of the heart are rare. Cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma is the second most common primary sarcoma. We report a rare case of a 49-year-old woman with a huge biatrial cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma treated by performing surgical resection followed by salvage chemotherapy for local recurrence. Cardiac sarcoma that occupy both atria are extremely rare. Although the prognosis of cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma is dismal, surgical resection should be recommended as a first line therapy to clarify the diagnosis and to relieve symptoms associated with the tumor.
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Uchida et al. (2019) conducted a case report in Primary biatrial cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma (n=1). Surgical resection followed by salvage chemotherapy was evaluated. Surgical resection followed by salvage chemotherapy was used to treat a rare case of a huge biatrial cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma in a 49-year-old woman.
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