Publication Date

2-1-2019

Journal

The Texas Heart Institute Journal

DOI

10.14503/THIJ-16-5896

PMID

30833834

Publication Date(s)

February 2019

Language

English

PMCID

PMC6379013

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

2-1-2019

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Post-Print

Published Open-Access

yes

Keywords

Atrial Appendage, Biopsy, Diagnosis, Differential, Echocardiography, Transesophageal, Female, Heart Neoplasms, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine, Middle Aged, Multimodal Imaging, Sarcoma

Abstract

Primary cardiac tumors are rare, and most are benign. Intimal sarcomas are among the rarest of the malignant cardiac tumors; they are aggressive and associated with a poor prognosis. Whereas transesophageal echocardiography has been instrumental in evaluating cardiac masses, other imaging methods, such as cardiac magnetic resonance, have proved invaluable in accurately characterizing these masses. We present the case of a 49-year-old woman in whom we diagnosed a primary intimal sarcoma of the left atrial appendage, and we discuss the importance of multimodal imaging in the evaluation and diagnosis of cardiac masses.

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