Primary Cardiac Epithelioid Angiosarcoma in a Latin American Patient: Case Report and Literature Review
Cardiac angiosarcoma is a rare and clinically challenging pathology. It is a high-grade primary malignant tumor of the heart tissue that has many variants, of which the epithelioid variant is rarely present in the heart or the great vessels. As with many other cardiac tumors, it is mainly a diagnosi...
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| author | Dan Morgenstern-Kaplan Carlos Manuel Aboitiz-Rivera Ruben Blachman-Braun María Eugenia Vázquez-Manríquez Benito Sarabia-Ortega Mario Enrique Baltazares-Lipp |
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| description | Cardiac angiosarcoma is a rare and clinically challenging pathology. It is a high-grade primary malignant tumor of the heart tissue that has many variants, of which the epithelioid variant is rarely present in the heart or the great vessels. As with many other cardiac tumors, it is mainly a diagnosis of exclusion and the initial diagnostic test is an echocardiogram followed by a biopsy with immunohistochemistry analysis to ascertain the type of tumor. The differential diagnosis of cardiac tumors is challenging due to the overlapping clinical manifestations with different cardiac tumors and systemic diseases. Cardiac angiosarcomas are often aggressive with a poor prognosis even with treatment. Herein, we present a case of the epithelioid variant of a cardiac angiosarcoma in addition to a thorough review of the recent literature on the clinical manifestation, diagnosis, and treatment of this type of tumors. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9cce1b29f72a4cfdafd9d01acfcfd3042025-08-20T02:20:19ZengWileyCase Reports in Oncological Medicine2090-67062090-67142019-01-01201910.1155/2019/26419762641976Primary Cardiac Epithelioid Angiosarcoma in a Latin American Patient: Case Report and Literature ReviewDan Morgenstern-Kaplan0Carlos Manuel Aboitiz-Rivera1Ruben Blachman-Braun2María Eugenia Vázquez-Manríquez3Benito Sarabia-Ortega4Mario Enrique Baltazares-Lipp5Centro de Investigación en Ciencias de la Salud (CICSA), Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Anáhuac Mexico Campus Norte, Huixquilucan, Edo. de Mexico, MexicoEchocardiography and Hemodynamics Service, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Tlalpan, Mexico City, MexicoCentro de Investigación en Ciencias de la Salud (CICSA), Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Anáhuac Mexico Campus Norte, Huixquilucan, Edo. de Mexico, MexicoDepartment of Pathology, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Tlalpan, Mexico City, MexicoEchocardiography and Hemodynamics Service, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Tlalpan, Mexico City, MexicoEchocardiography and Hemodynamics Service, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Tlalpan, Mexico City, MexicoCardiac angiosarcoma is a rare and clinically challenging pathology. It is a high-grade primary malignant tumor of the heart tissue that has many variants, of which the epithelioid variant is rarely present in the heart or the great vessels. As with many other cardiac tumors, it is mainly a diagnosis of exclusion and the initial diagnostic test is an echocardiogram followed by a biopsy with immunohistochemistry analysis to ascertain the type of tumor. The differential diagnosis of cardiac tumors is challenging due to the overlapping clinical manifestations with different cardiac tumors and systemic diseases. Cardiac angiosarcomas are often aggressive with a poor prognosis even with treatment. Herein, we present a case of the epithelioid variant of a cardiac angiosarcoma in addition to a thorough review of the recent literature on the clinical manifestation, diagnosis, and treatment of this type of tumors.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2641976 |
| spellingShingle | Dan Morgenstern-Kaplan Carlos Manuel Aboitiz-Rivera Ruben Blachman-Braun María Eugenia Vázquez-Manríquez Benito Sarabia-Ortega Mario Enrique Baltazares-Lipp Primary Cardiac Epithelioid Angiosarcoma in a Latin American Patient: Case Report and Literature Review Case Reports in Oncological Medicine |
| title | Primary Cardiac Epithelioid Angiosarcoma in a Latin American Patient: Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_full | Primary Cardiac Epithelioid Angiosarcoma in a Latin American Patient: Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_fullStr | Primary Cardiac Epithelioid Angiosarcoma in a Latin American Patient: Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Primary Cardiac Epithelioid Angiosarcoma in a Latin American Patient: Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_short | Primary Cardiac Epithelioid Angiosarcoma in a Latin American Patient: Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_sort | primary cardiac epithelioid angiosarcoma in a latin american patient case report and literature review |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2641976 |
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