Primary undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma of the left atrium that presented as acute pulmonary edema.
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.
Suh
Sung-Hwan
SH
Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Dong-A University College of Medicine, 3 Ga 1 Dongdaesin-dong, Seo-gu, Busan 602- 715, Korea.
Park
Tae-Ho
TH
Yoo
Jung-Nam
JN
Cha
Kwang-Soo
KS
Kim
Moo-Hyun
MH
Kim
Young-Dae
YD
Wu
Jong-Soo
JS
Roh
Mee-Sook
MS
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*