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Surgical resection or debulking of primary cardiac sarcomas produced immediate and effective symptom relief in two patients, with one surviving at least 12 months post-operation.
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Surgical debulking or resection of primary cardiac sarcomas provides effective symptom relief despite the overall poor prognosis.
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May palliate symptoms in select cases; leaves open survival benefit and optimal selection for primary cardiac sarcomas.
Primary cardiac sarcomas are rare tumors with an unfavourable prognosis. Complete surgical resection is currently the only mode of therapy proven to show any benefit. We report the cases of two patients presenting with features of obstruction and embolism and a presumed diagnosis of left atrial myxoma. At operation they were unexpectedly found to have large tumours raising strong suspicions of malignancy. Due to the extensive involvement of intracardiac structures with little possibility of reconstruction together with poor general condition of the patient, debulking was deemed to be the only viable option. Subsequent histology confirmed the diagnosis of sarcoma in both patients. Surgery produced immediate and effective symptom relief. The first patient died four months after the operation and second patient is still alive at 12 months after her operation. A brief review of literature on cardiac sarcoma is presented.
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Devbhandari et al. (2007) conducted a case report in Primary cardiac sarcoma (n=2). Surgical resection or debulking was evaluated on Symptom relief and survival. Surgical resection or debulking of primary cardiac sarcomas produced immediate and effective symptom relief in two patients, with one surviving at least 12 months post-operation.
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