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
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
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.