Primary cardiac tumors are rare and most frequently benign. The common primary myxomas. Early clinical symptoms can resemble different cardiovascular systemic diseases. heterogeneity in their presentation is due to the localization of myxomas structural characteristics. In cases an echocardiographic examination sufficient establish diagnosis. diagnosis referral for surgery prevent debilitating ...

Introduction Primary cardiac tumors are rare, and approximately 25% of which are malignant. Primary cardiac angiosarcoma, which is a rapidly progressing tumor, is the most common malignant tumor of cardiac origin. It is associated with a poor prognosis and median survival time of 3 to 6 months. We report a case of 61-year-old woman who had a history of unknown cause of pericardial effusion 7 mo...

Cardiac tumors are a rare entity, comprised of tumors with diverse histology and natural history. We report the clinical characteristics, echocardiograhic findings, therapy and outcome of 59 patients with primary and metastatic cardiac tumors. Our institutional echocardiogram data base from 1993 through 2005 was reviewed to identify patients diagnosed with intra-cardiac tumor. A total of 59 pat...

Cardiac myxoma, the most common primary cardiac tumor, usually develops in the left atrium. Right atrial myxomas are rare, especially those accompanied by pulmonary tumor embolism. We describe a case of a right atrial myxoma with a large tumor embolus in the left pulmonary artery. A 74-year-old man was referred to our hospital for the treatment of a right atrial tumor. Upon echocardiography, th...

Primary cardiac tumors are rare and myxoma is the most common tumor among them. Cardiac myxoma usually occurs in the left atrium. Myxoma originating from mitral valve is extremely rare. We report a case of mitral valve myxoma. The tumor originated from the anterior mitral valve leaflet. The tumor was completely removed and replacement of the mitral valve was not done.

A 35-year-old woman presented to the emergency room with a 2-month history of general malaise and anasarca. The chest x-ray showed cardiomegaly, and transthoracic echocar-diography revealed massive pericardial effusion leading to cardiac tamponade (Figure 1A and 1B). Immediately, 1400 mL pericardial effusion (yellow exudate) was removed by needle pericardiocentesis. After the procedure, transth...