title: Primitive cardiac sarcomas: about 2 cases.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  the cardiac sarcomas, although very rare, represent the quasi-totality of the primitive sly tumors of the heart
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  it is about a retrospective study of two cases of cardiac sarcomas operated in Sahloul university hospital of Sousse.
  
  
  METHODS
  it is about a woman and a man: The respective ages were 22 and 45 years. The clinical pattern of the patients was polymorphic and the diagnosis put by cardiac echography. Both patients had a surgical resection and a chemotherapy. Both patients died in 13 and 18 months after the diagnosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  because of the extreme rarity of the cardiac sarcomas, there is no precise therapeutic strategy. The only consensus concerns the surgery as soon as the diagnosis of cardiac tumor is put. The prognosis of these tumors is extremely redoubtable with a survival which does not exceed 2 years after the beginning of the symptomatology.
authors.affiliation: Cardio-vascular and thoracic department, Sahloul University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia.
authors.forename: Sofiane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jerbi
authors.forename: Noureddine
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Romdhani
authors.forename: Amine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tarmiz
authors.forename: Sinane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mlika
authors.forename: Khelil
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nizar
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beltaïfa
authors.forename: Makhlouf
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Belghith
authors.forename: Faouzi
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Limayem
authors.forename: Kamel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ennabli
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome