Primary Cardiac Angiosarcoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Qiang Guo
First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University
Author ProfileAbstract
We reported a 34-year-old man who was diagnosed as primary cardiac
angiosarcoma. The diagnosis was delayed until one month after he first
entered the hospital. Because cardiac angiosarcoma is easy to be
misdiagnosed as pneumonia or other diseases due to its rarity. Although
surgical therapy is always considered as a method that can prolong
survival time, highly malignant tumors with local infiltration and
systemic metastasis lead to poor prognosis. We stressed that primary
cardiac malignancy should be noticed when a young patient presented as
unexplained pericardial effusion or refractory pneumonia. Early
diagnosis can provide more possibilities for treatments.