Key result
Left atrial metastatic pleomorphic sarcoma highlights the need for detailed cardiac evaluations in cancer patients.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights the importance of considering metastatic disease to the heart in cancer patients presenting with cardiovascular complications.
Although several thousand patients are diagnosed with sarcoma annually in the United States, metastases to the heart are very uncommon. In this case report, an overall low frequency cancer presents masquerading with common cardiac symptomology. This case illustrates the importance for detailed diagnostic cardiac evaluations and heightened suspicion by physicians to consider metastatic disease to the heart in cancer patients with cardiovascular complications. Also discussed is a review of surgical and chemotherapeutic options for this problem.
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Hawasli et al. (2009) conducted a case report in Metastatic Pleomorphic Sarcoma to Left Atrium (n=1). A case of metastatic pleomorphic sarcoma to the left atrium highlights the need for detailed diagnostic cardiac evaluations in cancer patients presenting with cardiovascular complications.
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