Key result
Multimodality imaging with echocardiography and MRI established the rare diagnosis of cardiac spindle cell sarcoma in a patient initially misdiagnosed with mitral valve disease.
Multimodality imaging is crucial for the accurate diagnosis of rare cardiac tumors such as spindle cell sarcoma, which can mimic other structural heart diseases.
A young female with pulmonary congestion suspected to be secondary to mitral valve disease with left atrial appendage thrombus was given therapy for heart failure and anticoagulation. Subsequent multimodality imaging with echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging established an accurate but rare diagnosis of spindle cell sarcoma of the heart. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)
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Natarajan et al. (2019) studied this question. Multimodality imaging with echocardiography and MRI established the rare diagnosis of cardiac spindle cell sarcoma in a patient initially misdiagnosed with mitral valve disease.
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