Cardiac angiosarcoma: an unusual presentation simulating mitral stenosis and constrictive-effusive pericarditis. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • This case report details a patient with a cardiac angiosarcoma who had an unusual presentation with hemodynamics consistent with mitral stenosis and constrictive-effusive pericarditis. It illustrates how transesophageal echocardiography adds to the information obtained from transthoracic imaging and hemodynamics in this unusual presentation of a cardiac tumor.

publication date

  • December 1, 2003

Research

keywords

  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Heart Neoplasms
  • Hemangiosarcoma
  • Mitral Valve Stenosis
  • Pericarditis, Constrictive

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0344736948

PubMed ID

  • 14652616

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 16

issue

  • 12