title: Cardiac granulocytic sarcoma diagnosed by intracardiac echocardiography-guided biopsy.
abstract: A 52-year-old man presented with clinical and echocardiographic signs of cardiac tamponade. A transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a large right atrial mass that obstructed the superior vena cava flow. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography demonstrated extracardiac tumour invasion of the free atrial wall extending to the right pulmonary hilus. Intracardiac echocardiography-guided biopsy of the tumour revealed the tissue diagnosis-granulocytic sarcoma of the heart. The patient was effectively treated with radiotherapy, chemotherapy and allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. He has remained free of the disease for 12 months after treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Zaloška 7, 1525, Ljubljana, Slovenia. mirta.kozelj@mf.uni-lj.si.
authors.forename: Mirta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koželj
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Zaloška 7, 1525, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Darko
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zorman
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Zaloška 7, 1525, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Blaž
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mrevlje
authors.affiliation: Department of Haematology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Zaloška 7, 1525, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Černelč
authors.affiliation: Department of Haematology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Zaloška 7, 1525, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Samo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zver
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004452:Echocardiography; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012074:Remission Induction; D023981:Sarcoma, Myeloid / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous