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A 39-year-old male with a massive cardiac metastasis of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma underwent surgical extirpation but died of severe heart failure and multiorgan failure on the fifth postoperative day.
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Adult embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma is extremely rare and can present as a rapidly growing cardiac metastasis causing severe heart failure, requiring multidisciplinary management.
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Case highlights high perioperative mortality in cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma metastasis; leaves open optimal management strategies for this rare entity.
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Balážová et al. (2019) conducted a case report in Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma with cardiac metastasis (n=1). Surgical tumor extirpation was evaluated on Clinical outcome. A 39-year-old male with a massive cardiac metastasis of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma underwent surgical extirpation but died of severe heart failure and multiorgan failure on the fifth postoperative day.
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