Cardiac angiosarcoma: an unusual presentation simulating mitral stenosis and constrictive-effusive pericarditis.
This case report details a patient with a cardiac angiosarcoma who had an unusual presentation with hemodynamics consistent with mitral stenosis and constrictive-effusive pericarditis. It illustrates how transesophageal echocardiography adds to the information obtained from transthoracic imaging and hemodynamics in this unusual presentation of a cardiac tumor.
Plana
Juan Carlos
JC
Section of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, The Methodist DeBakey Heart Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Iskander
Sherif S
SS
Ostrowski
Mary L
ML
Howell
J F
JF
Kurrelmeyer
Karla
K
Raizner
Albert E
AE
Zoghbi
William A
WA
D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000175:diagnosis*