Transesophageal echocardiography was successfully utilized to guide a transvenous endomyocardial biopsy for the diagnosis of a right atrial primary cardiac angiosarcoma in a 35-year-old man.
Case Report (n=1)
Transesophageal echocardiography can be effectively used to guide transvenous endomyocardial biopsy for the diagnosis of rare primary cardiac tumors.
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.
Hammoudeh et al. (Fri,) conducted a case report in Primary cardiac angiosarcoma (right atrial tumor) (n=1). Transesophageal echocardiography-guided transvenous endomyocardial biopsy was evaluated on Diagnosis of primary cardiac angiosarcoma. Transesophageal echocardiography was successfully utilized to guide a transvenous endomyocardial biopsy for the diagnosis of a right atrial primary cardiac angiosarcoma in a 35-year-old man.