A Rare Cause of Dyspnea: Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma in the Left Atrium

Primary cardiac tumors are a rare entity. The presence of a mass in the left atrium suggests myxoma as a first differential diagnosis. Here we present a rare case of a woman with exertional dyspnea with a large tumor in the left atrium. The patient was extensively studied with echocardiography, card...

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Autores principales: Munin, Martin A., Goerner, Maria Silvia, Raggio, Ignacio, Wisner, Jorge, Tettamanzi, Alejandro, Godia, Jose, Penaloza, Maria Paula, Guetta, Javier
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5667713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29118888
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/cr590w
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author Munin, Martin A.
Goerner, Maria Silvia
Raggio, Ignacio
Wisner, Jorge
Tettamanzi, Alejandro
Godia, Jose
Penaloza, Maria Paula
Guetta, Javier
author_facet Munin, Martin A.
Goerner, Maria Silvia
Raggio, Ignacio
Wisner, Jorge
Tettamanzi, Alejandro
Godia, Jose
Penaloza, Maria Paula
Guetta, Javier
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description Primary cardiac tumors are a rare entity. The presence of a mass in the left atrium suggests myxoma as a first differential diagnosis. Here we present a rare case of a woman with exertional dyspnea with a large tumor in the left atrium. The patient was extensively studied with echocardiography, cardiac MRI, coronary angiography and computed tomography. Extracardiac neoplastic involvement was ruled out. The patient underwent surgery, the mass was removed, and the final diagnosis was an undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma.
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spelling pubmed-56677132017-11-08 A Rare Cause of Dyspnea: Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma in the Left Atrium Munin, Martin A. Goerner, Maria Silvia Raggio, Ignacio Wisner, Jorge Tettamanzi, Alejandro Godia, Jose Penaloza, Maria Paula Guetta, Javier Cardiol Res Case Report Primary cardiac tumors are a rare entity. The presence of a mass in the left atrium suggests myxoma as a first differential diagnosis. Here we present a rare case of a woman with exertional dyspnea with a large tumor in the left atrium. The patient was extensively studied with echocardiography, cardiac MRI, coronary angiography and computed tomography. Extracardiac neoplastic involvement was ruled out. The patient underwent surgery, the mass was removed, and the final diagnosis was an undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma. Elmer Press 2017-10 2017-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5667713/ /pubmed/29118888 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/cr590w Text en Copyright 2017, Munin et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Munin, Martin A.
Goerner, Maria Silvia
Raggio, Ignacio
Wisner, Jorge
Tettamanzi, Alejandro
Godia, Jose
Penaloza, Maria Paula
Guetta, Javier
A Rare Cause of Dyspnea: Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma in the Left Atrium
title A Rare Cause of Dyspnea: Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma in the Left Atrium
title_full A Rare Cause of Dyspnea: Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma in the Left Atrium
title_fullStr A Rare Cause of Dyspnea: Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma in the Left Atrium
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Cause of Dyspnea: Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma in the Left Atrium
title_short A Rare Cause of Dyspnea: Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma in the Left Atrium
title_sort rare cause of dyspnea: undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma in the left atrium
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5667713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29118888
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/cr590w
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