Primary Cardiac Sarcoma Involving the Mitral Valve, an Insidious Form of Heart Failure
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Todd Prol; Harsh Jain; Shashi Raja; Konstantinos Koulogiannis; Joseph Petro; Stephen Horgan; Edward Rachofsky
- Source
- CASE : Cardiovascular Imaging Case Reports
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test
Transthoracic echocardiography
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Primary cardiac sarcoma
medicine.anatomical_structure
Mitral valve
Heart failure
Biopsy
Cardiac CT
cardiovascular system
medicine
Radiology
Transesophageal echocardiography
Cardiac sarcoma
business
Cardiac MRI
Cardiac imaging
Median survival
Disease burden
ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS
- Language
- ISSN
- 2468-6441
Graphical abstract
Highlights • Multimodality cardiac imaging can assess cardiac sarcomas and guide biopsy. • Cardiac MRI differentiates cardiac tumors from thrombus and identifies thrombus tumor. • Cardiac sarcoma treatment includes surgical and adjuvant options. • Survival rates of cardiac sarcoma are based on tumor location within the heart.