Extensive neoplastic cardiac infiltration in a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia: role of echocardiography.
We present the case of a 34-year-old man with a history of relapsed acute myelogenous leukemia with extensive metastatic infiltration of the endomyocardium. Transesophageal echocardiography revealed masses within all the cardiac chambers and associated vascular structures. Biopsy of the superior vena cava mass had the histological features of a granulocytic sarcoma (GS, chloroma). Massive involvement of the heart with GS is very rare, and only a few reports have been published in the literature.
Makaryus
Amgad N
AN
North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York 11030, USA.
Tung
Frank
F
Liu
Wei
W
Mangion
Judy
J
Kort
Smadar
S
D000328:Adult; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000473:pathology*; D017254:Leukemic Infiltration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D023981:Sarcoma, Myeloid / Q000473:pathology; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000473:pathology