title: Primary cardiac sarcoma presenting as acute left-sided heart failure.
abstract: Primary cardiac sarcomas are rare malignant tumors of the heart. Clinical features depend on the site of tumor and vary from symptoms of congestive heart failure to thromboembolism and arrhythmias. Echocardiography is helpful but definitive diagnosis is established by histopathology. Surgical resection is the mainstay of treatment, and the role of chemotherapy and radiotherapy is unclear. We report a case of primary cardiac sarcoma which presented with signs and symptoms of acute left-sided heart failure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Reading Health System, West Reading, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Ranjan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pathak
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Rapid City Regional Hospital, Rapid City, SD, USA.
authors.forename: Santosh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nepal
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
authors.forename: Smith
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Giri
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Reading Health System, West Reading, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Sushil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghimire
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Reading Health System, West Reading, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Madan Raj
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Aryal
keywords: heart failure; heart neoplasms; left-sided heart failure; primary cardiac sarcoma