title: Primary undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma of the left atrium that presented as acute pulmonary edema.
abstract: A 37-year-old woman was admitted to Dong-A University Hospital for rapidly progressive congestive heart failure. Transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated a large mass with a stalk that appeared to be a myxoma on the posterior wall of the left atrium. However, the histological diagnosis was undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma. We report a case of primary undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma of the left atrium with acute pulmonary edema caused by mitral inflow obstruction.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Dong-A University College of Medicine, 3 Ga 1 Dongdaesin-dong, Seo-gu, Busan 602- 715, Korea.
authors.forename: Sung-Hwan
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Suh
authors.forename: Tae-Ho
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Jung-Nam
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.forename: Kwang-Soo
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Cha
authors.forename: Moo-Hyun
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Young-Dae
authors.initials: YD
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jong-Soo
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Mee-Sook
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Roh
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000473:pathology*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*