A Patient Presenting with Cardiac Tamponade and the Challenges of Finding Its Cause: A Cardiac Angiosarcoma

Abstract EN

Primary malignancies of the heart are so rare that most of the available data come from case reports or large single-center-based studies, with the overall incidence of 0.02% in the United States.

Diagnosis in case of an isolated pericardial effusion as presentation is challenging, and determining that an angiosarcoma is even more challenging.

Here, we presented a rare case of pericardial angiosarcoma which presented to us with tamponade.

The patient eventually was diagnosed through pericardiectomy.

A multimodality approach was attempted to treat the cancer.

The clinical details of such a unique disease entity inspired us to present it as a case report.