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Left-sided cardiac angiosarcoma is an extremely rare malignancy predominantly affecting females around 60 years of age, with an extremely poor life expectancy of 3 to 34 months.
Case Report (n=9)
Left-sided cardiac angiosarcoma is an extremely rare malignancy that predominantly affects older females and carries a dismal prognosis despite multimodality treatment.
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Alerts clinicians to this rare tumor's dismal outlook in older women; leaves optimal management open given Level 5 evidence.
Cardiac angiosarcoma usually arises from the right atrium. We report an extremely rare case of primary angiosarcoma originating from the left atrium in a 70-year-old woman. This represents the ninth reported case of left-sided cardiac angiosarcoma in the English literature. Analysis of all nine cases shows that this malignant neoplasm occurs more in female patients with a mean age of 60 years, unlike the right-sided one which typically affects male patients in their early 40s. The prognosis of this tumor is extremely poor with life expectancy lying between 3 to 34 months despite early diagnosis by imaging and multimodality treatment.
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Ho et al. (2009) conducted a case report in Primary cardiac angiosarcoma of the left atrium (n=9). Left-sided cardiac angiosarcoma vs. Right-sided cardiac angiosarcoma was evaluated on Life expectancy. Left-sided cardiac angiosarcoma is an extremely rare malignancy predominantly affecting females around 60 years of age, with an extremely poor life expectancy of 3 to 34 months.
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