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Necrotic cardiac haemangioma masquerading as sepsis with disseminated intravascular coagulation

T S Tse1, K L Tsui, L C Ling

  • 1Department of Medicine, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Chai Wan, Hong Kong. tsetaksun@gmail.com

Cardiac haemangiomas are exceptionally rare benign vascular tumours. We report a case of cardiac haemangioma presenting with pyrexia of unknown origin and clinical features simulating sepsis with disseminated intravascular coagulation. The clinical course was complicated by systemic embolism.