Key result
Transesophageal echocardiography successfully guided transvenous endomyocardial biopsy to diagnose primary cardiac angiosarcoma in a 35-year-old man with a right atrial tumor.
Case Report (n=1)
Transesophageal echocardiography is a viable imaging modality to guide transvenous endomyocardial biopsy for the diagnosis of right atrial tumors.
Does not warrant practice change from one case; leaves open TEE's role in guiding right atrial tumor biopsy.
Primary cardiac tumors are rare clinical entities with the histologic diagnosis usually made from surgically obtained tissue or at postmortem examination. Transvenous endomyocardial biopsy has been used less frequently, under fluoroscopic or transthoracic echocardiographic guidance. In this case report, we utilized the transesophageal echocardiography to guide the endomyocardial biopsy from a right atrial tumor in a 35-year-old man.
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Hammoudeh et al. (1996) conducted a case report in Primary cardiac tumor (n=1). Transesophageal echocardiography-guided transvenous endomyocardial biopsy was evaluated on Diagnosis of primary cardiac angiosarcoma. Transesophageal echocardiography successfully guided transvenous endomyocardial biopsy to diagnose primary cardiac angiosarcoma in a 35-year-old man with a right atrial tumor.
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