title: Primary right atrial cardiac osteosarcoma with congestive heart failure.
abstract: Right atrial cardiac osteosarcoma is a rare intracardiac tumor that can be difficult to diagnose. This report describes a 20-year-old man who was referred to our hospital with symptoms of heart failure. Echocardiography revealed a mass adhering to the right arterial septum that extended into the right ventricle and inferior vena cava. Right ventricular failure and worsening symptoms indicated the need for emergency life-saving surgery. Thereafter, the associated symptoms dramatically and rapidly diminished, and two days later the patient had recovered sufficiently to walk unaided. The short-term results of surgical tumor excision were excellent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan. tomotakadohi@msh.biglobe.ne.jp
authors.forename: Tomotaka
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dohi
authors.forename: Hirotoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohmura
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Daida
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amano
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer; D006325:Heart Atria; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult