Primary cardiac angiosarcoma of left atrium

J Card Surg. 2009 Sep-Oct;24(5):524-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2009.00872.x.

Abstract

Cardiac angiosarcoma usually arises from the right atrium. We report an extremely rare case of primary angiosarcoma originating from the left atrium in a 70-year-old woman. This represents the ninth reported case of left-sided cardiac angiosarcoma in the English literature. Analysis of all nine cases shows that this malignant neoplasm occurs more in female patients with a mean age of 60 years, unlike the right-sided one which typically affects male patients in their early 40s. The prognosis of this tumor is extremely poor with life expectancy lying between 3 to 34 months despite early diagnosis by imaging and multimodality treatment.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Heart Atria / pathology*
  • Heart Atria / surgery
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery
  • Hemangiosarcoma / pathology*
  • Hemangiosarcoma / surgery
  • Humans