[Sarcoma of the heart. Apropos of 2 cases].
Sarcoma of the heart is a very rare condition. We present here two cases with very different clinical expression. The first patient, a 15-year old girl, presented with extremely severe ventricular arrhythmia, whereas the second patient, a 63-year old woman, mainly had signs of congestive cardiac failure. A diagnosis of cardiac tumour was made in the first case on the basis of ultrasonographic results which clearly showed the tumour developed from the walls of the left ventricle. In the second case, the tumour involved the right ventricular wall, the deformation of which was undetected by ultrasounds and only suspected at angiography. Both patients died rapidly, and the diagnosis of sarcoma was confirmed at post-mortem examination.
D000293:Adolescent; D000790:Angiocardiography; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*
Sarcomes du coeur. A propos de 2 cas.