Cor Vasa 2016, 58(5):e478-e483 | DOI: 10.1016/j.crvasa.2016.04.001

Primary cardiac angiosarcoma in multimodality imaging - Case report and review of literature

Jan Přeček^a, Zbyněk Tüdös^b,*, Martin Hutyra^a, František Kováčik^a, David Vindiš^a, Zuzana Prouzová^c, Miloš Táborský^a

^a I. interní klinika - kardiologická, Lékařská fakulta Univerzity Palackého a Fakultní nemocnice Olomouc, Olomouc, Česká republika

^b Radiologická klinika, Lékařská fakulta Univerzity Palackého a Fakultní nemocnice Olomouc, Olomouc, Česká republika

^c Ústav klinické a molekulární patologie, Lékařská fakulta Univerzity Palackého a Fakultní nemocnice Olomouc, Olomouc, Česká republika

Primary cardiac tumors are very rare diseases, wherein the most frequent primary malignant cardiac tumor is angiosarcoma. Despite the advances in diagnostics and therapy, prognosis of primary cardiac angiosarcoma is still poor. Timely diagnosis is a key requirement for the patients' survival. Multimodality imaging could contribute to brief differential diagnosis of cardiac masses. Our paper presents a fatal case of cardiac angiosarcoma in a young man with special focus to multimodality imaging possibilities, including, next to echocardiography, also MRI and PET-CT. Review of literature describes a clinical characteristics of the cardiac angiosarcoma and also diagnostics and therapeutics modalities.

Keywords: Cardiac angiosarcoma; Imaging; Echocardiography; MRI; PET-CT

Received: February 29, 2016; Accepted: April 1, 2016; Published: October 1, 2016  Show citation