title: Ruptured cardiac angiosarcoma with pulmonary metastases: a rare disease with a common (mis)diagnosis!
abstract: In Indian settings pulmonary tuberculosis remains the most common diagnosis in a patient presenting with constitutional symptoms, hemoptysis and lung opacities. We describe a case report of a fifty-year-old woman who was receiving empirical anti-tubercular drugs for a metastatic illness to lungs arising from a primary angiosarcoma in the right atrium. This rare entity was misdiagnosed and typical echocardiographic findings suggested this diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Cardiology, GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi, India. kirti_kota@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Gagan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: Saibal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mukhopadhyay
authors.forename: Sumod
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kurien
authors.forename: Jamal
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yusuf
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tyagi
authors.forename: Rajat
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jain
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged