Primary cardiac angiosarcoma treated by complete tumor resection with cardiac reconstruction
Kyoung Sik Park1, Bong Gun Song, Kyeong Sam Ok
1Division of Cardiology, Cardiac and Vascular Center, Department of Medicine, Inje University Seoul Paik Hospital, Inje University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract:
Primary cardiac sarcoma is a rare malignant neoplasm, with an incidence of .0001% in collected autopsy series. Angiosarcoma is the most common cardiac sarcoma and is present in up to 33% of the cases that are associated with a poor prognosis. Because angiosarcoma is essentially not responsive to current regimens of chemotherapy and irradiation, early complete resection is recommended as the treatment choice. However, complete resection is difficult because of the limited amount of myocardium and expansion of the tumor at the time of diagnosis. We report a case of right atrial angiosarcoma treated by complete tumor resection with cardiac reconstruction with a bovine pericardium patch.
