Heart team rescues a bleeding heart: a case report of cardiac angiosarcoma causing life-threatening tamponade
Malignancy is responsible for only a small proportion of pericardial effusions and metastatic disease is overwhelmingly more common than primary cardiac neoplasms. This case highlights the use of multi-modality cardiac imaging to guide diagnosis and treatment, and the need to consider the rarer causes of haemopericardium in cases where the more common causes have been excluded.
Authors
- Y. Chacko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4956-3539)
- Vladimir Andelkovic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1938-875X)
- Sean Lawrence (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7124-1616)
- T. Sklavos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3829-8095)
- Christian Cole (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2560-2484)
Institutions
- Princess Alexandra Hospital (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Heart Journal - Case Reports
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytaf220
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac tumors and thrombi
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00