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Transcatheter intervention with a coronary stent graft successfully obliterated the feeding artery of a primary cardiac tumor, leading to regression of the tumor and pericardial effusion at 8 months.
Case Report (n=1)
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Coronary stent graft implantation to obliterate the feeding artery may be a viable, less invasive alternative to surgical resection for managing primary cardiac tumors with tumor blush.
May offer a less invasive option for select cardiac tumors; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
UNLABELLED: Primary cardiac tumors are rare. When they do occur, their symptoms and signs depend on the location and size of the tumor. Imaging multimodalities play an important role in evaluating cardiac tumors. "Tumor blush" is a specific character of certain cardiac tumors on coronary angiography. The current treatment of these tumors is associated with observed clinical symptoms, and the main treatment option is surgical resection. Coronary stent grafts have been used for treatment of coronary artery perforation, coronary pseudoaneurysm, and coronary artery fistula. In this article, we presented a 53-year-old woman who had a cardiac tumor with tumor blush complicated by pericardial effusion which was medically managed by use of a stent graft.
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Liao et al. (2015) conducted a case report in Primary cardiac neoplasm with tumor blush (n=1). Coronary stent graft was evaluated on Tumor devascularization and resolution of pericardial effusion. Transcatheter intervention with a coronary stent graft successfully obliterated the feeding artery of a primary cardiac tumor, leading to regression of the tumor and pericardial effusion at 8 months.
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