Key result
Autopsy revealed a diffuse cardiac angiosarcoma involving the entire heart with bilateral pleural and pulmonary metastases in a 47-year-old female presenting with rapid recurrent pleural effusion.
Why the study?
Diffuse cardiac angiosarcoma is a very rare disease with non-specific symptoms, making early clinical and pathologic diagnosis extremely difficult to establish.
Case Report (n=1)
This case highlights the diagnostic difficulty of diffuse cardiac angiosarcoma, which can present with non-specific symptoms and evade detection by standard imaging and biopsies.
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Rapid recurrent pleural effusions warrant consideration of occult cardiac angiosarcoma; this case leaves open the need for improved antemortem diagnostics.
Karki et al. (2020) conducted a case report in Cardiac angiosarcoma (n=1). Autopsy revealed a diffuse cardiac angiosarcoma involving the entire heart with bilateral pleural and pulmonary metastases in a 47-year-old female presenting with rapid recurrent pleural effusion.
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