Left ventricular metastasis of soft tissue sarcoma causing heart failure: Presentation of two cases

Int J Cardiol. 2016 Sep 15:219:119-20. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.06.052. Epub 2016 Jun 14.

Authors

Anja Zupan Mežnar¹, Pavel Berden², Mitja Lainščak³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, General Hospital Celje, Celje, Slovenia.
² Institute of Radiology, University Clinical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia.
³ Department of Cardiology, General Hospital Celje, Celje, Slovenia; Department of Research and Education, General Hospital Celje, Celje, Slovenia. Electronic address: mitja.lainscak@guest.arnes.si.

PMID: 27318756
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.06.052

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiac metastasis; Cardiac tumour; Echocardiography; Heart failure; Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction; Sarcoma.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Fatal Outcome
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Heart Failure / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Failure / etiology*
Heart Neoplasms / complications*
Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Neoplasms / secondary
Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Sarcoma / complications*
Sarcoma / diagnostic imaging*
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / diagnostic imaging
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / etiology