Key result
Primary cardiac angiosarcoma often presents atypically with delayed diagnosis and poor prognosis despite surgery.
Why the study?
Primary cardiac angiosarcoma is rare and often misdiagnosed, leading to delayed diagnosis and poor prognosis despite surgical therapy.
Case Report (n=1)
Primary cardiac malignancy should be considered in young patients presenting with unexplained pericardial effusion or refractory pneumonia to prevent delayed diagnosis.
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Supports inclusion of angiosarcoma in differentials for unexplained effusions; hypothesis-generating and requires larger-cohort confirmation before practice impact.
We reported a 34-year-old man who was diagnosed as primary cardiac angiosarcoma. The diagnosis was delayed until one month after he first entered the hospital. Because cardiac angiosarcoma is easy to be misdiagnosed as pneumonia or other diseases due to its rarity. Although surgical therapy is always considered as a method that can prolong survival time, highly malignant tumors with local infiltration and systemic metastasis lead to poor prognosis. We stressed that primary cardiac malignancy should be noticed when a young patient presented as unexplained pericardial effusion or refractory pneumonia. Early diagnosis can provide more possibilities for treatments.
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Guo et al. (2020) conducted a case report in Primary cardiac angiosarcoma (n=1). Primary cardiac angiosarcoma can present as unexplained pericardial effusion or refractory pneumonia, often leading to delayed diagnosis and poor prognosis despite surgical therapy.
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