PHAM QUANG THIEN PHU, MD
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 Classification
 Incidence
 Clinical manifestations and Diagnostic evaluations
 Approach to cardiac mass
 Benign tumors
 Primary maglinant tumors
 Secondary cardiac tumors
Contents
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Cardiac tumors
Neoplastic
lesions
Benign tumors
Maglinant
tumors
Nonneoplastic
lesions
Classification
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Nonneoplastic tumors:
•Thrombi
•Infections
•Cysts varices
•Degenerative processes (calcification)
•Heterotopias
•Extracardiac processess (hiatal hernia, esophageal
diverticulum)
Classification
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 Among the neoplastic lesions, benign and maglinant
tumors can be distinguished as well as primary and
metastatic processes.
 Fewer than 10% of primary cardiac neoplasms are
maglinant.
 The classification of some lesions, such as papillary
fibroelastoma, is jet unclear despite the fact that this is
thought to be one of the most common adult cardiac
tumors, and why precisely they arise is poorly
understood.
Classification
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WHO – classification (2015)
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WHO – classification (2015)
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WHO – classification (2015)
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Pseudotumors Mural thrombi
Heterotopias and tumors
of ectopic tissues
Tumors of atrioventricular nodal region
Teratoma
Ectopic thyroid
Tumors of
mesenchymal tissue
Harmatoma of
endocardial tissue
Papillary fibroelastoma
Harmatoma of
cardiac muscle
Rhadomyoma
Histocytoid cardiomyopathy
(Purkinje cell)
Classification by Pathology
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Tumors and neoplasms of fat Lipomatous hypertrophy, interarterial septum
Lipoma
Liposarcoma
Tumors and neoplasms of fibrous
and myofibroblastic tissue
Fibroma
Inflammatory pseudotumor (inflammatory
myofibrolastic tumor
Sarcomas (maglinant fibrous histocytoma,
fibrosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma)
Classification by Pathology
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Vascular tumors
and neoplasms
Hemangioma
Epitheliod hemangioendothelioma
Angiosarcoma
Neoplasm of
uncertain
histogenesis
Myxoma
Neoplasm of
neural tissue
Granular cell tumor
Schwannorma/neurofibroma
Classification by Pathology
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Paragandolioma
Maglinant schawannoma/ neurofbrosarcoma (rare)
Maglinant lymphoma
Maglinant mesothelioma
Metastatic tumors to the heart
Classification by Pathology
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 Primary cardiac tumors are extremely rare. As an
example, in one series of over 12,000 autopsies, only seven
were identified, for an incidence of less than 0.1 percent.
 Metastatic involvement of the heart is over 20 times more
common and has been reported in autopsy series in up to
one in five patients dying of cancer.
Incidence
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Why are cardiac tumors rare ?
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Matters of the Heart: Why Are Cardiac Tumors So Rare? – National Cancer Institute
https://www.cancer.gov/types/metastatic-cancer/research/cardiac-tumors
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Incidence
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Clinical classification of cardiovascular tumors and tumor-like lesions, and its incidences
Jun Amano, Jun Nakayama, Yasuo Yoshimura, and Uichi Ikeda
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Incidence of tumors orginated from the heart
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Incidence of tumors orginated from the heart
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Incidence of tumors orginated from the heart
in childen
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Incidence
https://thoracickey.com/cardiac-tumors-6/
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Clinical manifestation
 Cardiac tumors: symptomatic or incidentally found
 Symptoms may mimic other cardiac conditions =>
clinical challenge is to consider the possibility of a
cardiac tumor so that the appropriate diagnostic
test(s) can be conducted.
 Echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI), and/or computed tomography (CT).
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 The specific signs and symptoms of cardiac tumors
generally are determined by the location of the
tumor in the heart and not by its histopathology.
 Benign histology does not necessarily equate to a
benign clinical course.
 Small, histologically benign lesions can still cause
devastating consequences through thromboembolic
events or arrhythmogenesis.
 Large, histologically benign lesions can obstruct
blood flow and result in heart failure.
Clinical manifestation
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 Embolization: usually systemic but can be pulmonic.
Aortic valve and left atrial tumors were associated with
greatest risk of embolization.
 Obstruction of the circulation through the heart or heart
valves, producing symptoms of heart failure.
 Interference with the heart valves, causing regurgitation
 Direct invasion of the myocardium, resulting in
impaired left ventricular function, arrhythmias, heart
block, or pericardial effusion with or without tamponade.
 Invasion of the adjacent lung may cause pulmonary
symptoms and may mimic bronchogenic carcinoma.
 Constitutional or systemic symptoms
Mechanism of symptoms production
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Left atrial tumors
Right atrial tumors
Right ventricular tumors
Left ventricular tumors
Clinical manifestration
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 Tumors arising in the left atrium tend to grow into the atrial
lumen and cause symptoms by obstructing blood flow or
creating mitral regurgitation.
=> Mitral valve disease, heart failure and/or PAH
 Dyspnea, orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea,
pulmonary edema, cough, hemoptysis, edema, and fatigue.
 Left atrial tumors may release tumor fragments or thrombi
into the systemic circulation => embolization and
neurologic complications.
 Benign myxomas are the most common tumors arising in
the left atrium .
Left atrial tumors
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 Tumors arising in the right atrium grow into the atrial lumen
and obstruct blood flow.
=> hemodynamic changes similar to tricuspid stenosis.
 Signs and symptoms of right heart failure.
 Tumor fragments may be released into the pulmonary
circulation, causing symptoms consistent with pulmonary
emboli.
 Right atrial hypertension can result in shunting of venous
blood into the systemic circulation if a patent foramen ovale (or
atrial septal defect) is present => hypoxemia or systemic
emboli.
 Myxomas are the most common tumors of the right atrium.
Sarcomas, angiosarcomas have been reported.
Right atrial tumors
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 Lesions arising in the right ventricle most commonly
interfere with filling and/or outflow from the right ventricle
=> rightsided heart failure.
 Tumors arising in the right ventricle can be misdiagnosed as
pulmonic stenosis, restrictive cardiomyopathy, or tricuspid
regurgitation.
Right ventricular tumors
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 Tumors arising in the left ventricle may be intramural and
present with arrhythmias or conduction defects.
 Systemic embolization or outflow obstruction
 Syncope or left ventricular failure.
Left ventricular tumors
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Whether or not a cardiac tumor is present.
The location of the lesion within the heart.
Whether a tumor is benign or malignant (to
extent possible).
=> Echocardiography, cardiac computed
tomography (CT), cardiac magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI)
Diagnostic evaluation: Goals
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Chapter 5 - Cardiac tumors: Imaging
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 Widely available , simple, noninvasive technique for the
initial evaluation.
 Images both the myocardium and the cardiac
chambers => identify the presence of a mass and its
mobility.
 Provide information about any obstruction to the
circulation, as well as the likelihood that the tumor
could be a source of emboli.
Echocardiography
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Chapter 5 - Cardiac tumors: Imaging
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 Use of intravenous ultrasound contrast agents can improve
the diagnostic utility of echocardiography.
 Evaluate the vascularity and perfusion of cardiac masses
 Differentitate nonvasuclar thrombi from vascular
neoplasms
 3D echocardiography: may be benificial in selected cases.
Routine use: uncertain benefit.
Echocardiography
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More informative
Proximity of the esophagus to the heart.
The lack of intervening lung and bone.
The ability to use highfrequency imaging
transducers that afford superior spatial
resolution.
Transesophageal
echocardiography (TEE)
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Chapter 5 - Cardiac tumors: Imaging
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 Fast image acquisiton
 High spatial resolution of cardiac structures
 Compared with echocardiography, CT provides superior
tissue characterization, specifically of fat and calcium.
 ECG-gated CT: functional analysis of cardiac valves and
myocardial function as well as multiplanar reconstructions.
 Evaluation entire thorax
Cardiac CT
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 Best tissue characterization
 Provide functional evaluation of cardiac structures
and morphologic evaluation in multiple planes
 Imaging the entire thorax.
Cardiac MRI
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Chapter 5 - Cardiac tumors: Imaging
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Modality Pros Cons
Echocardiography Widely available, highest
spatial and temporal
resolution, real-time
evaluation of dynamic
structures
Tissue characterization
is limited, most operator
– dependent modality
Limited evaluation of
extracardiac
intrathoracic structures
ECG-gated CT Very fast image
accquistion, excellent
characterization of fat
and calcium
Evaluates entire throax
Tissue characterization
is worse than MRI
Worse temporal
resolution than echo
Ionizing radiation.
Cardiac MRI Best tissue
characterization, allows
for structural and
functional resolution
Evaluates entire thorax
Worst spatial resolution
Long image accquistion
time
Safety issues with some
implanted devices
Imaging modalities of cardiac tumors
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 Evaluating tumor spread throughout the body
 Useful in identifying cardiac involvement in patients
with metastatic tumors, atrial myxoma, or
lipomatous septal hypertrophy.
PET scan
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Chapter 5 - Cardiac tumors: Imaging
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 Mapping the blood supply of tumors arising from the
epicardial surfaces must be performed with coronary
angiography.
 This information is vital to the success of excising such
tumors.
 Significant involvement of coronary arteries with tumor
may require resection and grafting of such
arteries.
 For those with epicardial tumors, coronary angiography is
specifically required to assess the location of the tumor’s
nutrient vessels and any that are parasitized by the tumor
Coronary angiography
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 Quite challenging because of location.
 Some tumors (particularly those arising from in the right
heart) are amenable to endomyocardial sampling by wave
of bioptome.
 Maglinant lesions that involve pericardium => cytologic
analysis or pericardial fluid.
 In general, the information from noninvasive imaging is
sufficient to make a decision regarding the need for
surgery, where a definitive histologic diagnosis can be
established.
Tumors biopsy
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Cardiac Bioptome
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Cardiac Bioptome
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Diagnosis
•Patient – specific characteristics (age and
clinical context: fever, DVT,…)
•Lesions – specific characteristics (shape,
form, localization)
•Differential diagnosis: normal variant,
thrombus, vegetation
Approach to cardiac mass
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Chapter 6 - Cardiac tumors: Treatment
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Evaluation of cardiac mass
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Chapter 6 - Cardiac tumors: Treatment
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Evaluation of cardiac mass focusing
on histologic context
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Chapter 6 - Cardiac tumors: Treatment
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1. Myxoma
2. Lipoma
3. Papillary fibroelastomas
4. Rhadomyoma
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Myxoma
 50% of all benign cardiac tumors in adults and 15% of such
tumors in children. Infancy: rare
 Sporadically and tend to be more common in women
 Occurene: between third and six decades of life.
 94% tumors are solitary
 75% occur in left atrium; 10 – 20%: right atrium
 Low recurrence rate
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 DNA genotype of sporadic myxomas is normal in
80% of patients.
 5% of myxoma patients show a familial pattern of
tumor development based on autosomal – dominant
inheritance.
 20% sporadic myxoma patients have abnormal DNA
genotype chromosomal pattern.
Genetic findings
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 Younger
 Male = female
 More often (22%) have multicentric tumors orinating from
either the atrium or ventricle.
 Higher recurrence rate after surgical resection (21 – 67%)
 Associated conditions (20%): adrenocortical nodule
hyperplasia, sertoli cell tumors of the testes, pituitary
tumors, multiple myxoid breast fibroadenomas, cutaneous
myomas and facial or labial pigmented spots
Familial Myxoma
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 Composed of scattered cells within a mucopolysaccharide
stroma.
 The cells originate from a multipotent mesenchyme that is
capable of neural and endothelial differentiation.
 Myxomas produce vascular endothelial growth factor
(VEGF), which probably contributes to the induction of
angiogenesis and the early stages of tumor growth.
Histology
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 Typical myxomas are pedunculated and gelatinous in
consistency
 The surface may be smooth, villous, or friable.
 Tumors vary widely in size, ranging from 1 to 15 cm in
diameter, and weigh between 15 and 180 g.
 About 35 percent of myxomas are friable or villous,
and these tend to present with emboli.
 Myxomas tend to grow into the overlying cardiac
cavity rather than into the surrounding muocardium.
Histology
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Histology
 Large polypoid mass with
atrial septum attached,
highlighted by the arrow.
Note the focal hemorrhage.
This is a typical myxoma.
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Histology
 Pathologic specimen
demonstrating a large myxoma
(M) in the left atrium (LA)
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Histology
 Atrial myxoma. Clusters
and single polygonal cells
with an irregular cytoplasm
and dark nuclei can be
seen. Note the background
of the myxoid material.
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 Intracardiac obstruction
 Congestive heart failure
 Signs of embolization
 Constitutional symptoms
 Fever
 Weight loss or fatigue
 Immunologic manifestration
 Myalgia
 Weakness
 Arthralgia
 Cardiac arrthymias and infections: less frenquently
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Clinical Presentation
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 LA
 Positioned dyspnea
 Signs and symptoms of heart failure associated with left atrial and
pulmonary venous pressure.
 Syncope: mitral stenosis or temporary occlusion of the mitral
orifice
 RA:
 Right-sided heart failure
 Tricuspid valve stenosis
 Central cyanosis and paradoxic embolization (patent foramen
ovale is present)
 Ventricular myxomas: ventricular outflow obstruction
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Obstruction
 Because most myxomas are left-sided, approximately
50% of embolic episodes affect the central nervous
system, owing to both intracranial and extracranial
vascular obstruction => intracranial aneurysm, seizures,
hemiparesis and brain necrosis.
 Retinal artery embolization with visual loss occurs in
some patients.
 Other sites of embolization: iliac, femoral arteries, renal
and coronary arteries.
 Right – sided myxomasemboli mainly obstruct Pas =>
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Embolization
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 Rare complication
 Clinical picture of endocarditis infection
 Increases the likelyhood of systemic embolization
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Infection
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 Nonspecific abnormalities: chamber enlargement,
bundle-branch blocks, axis deviation, atrial fibrillation
(20%)
 Most ECGs are not helpful in establishing a diagnosis
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ECG
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 Most useful test for the diagnosis and evaluation of
myxoma. Sensitivity of 2D echocardiography is 100%.
 TEE: provide information concerning tumor size, location,
mobility, and attachment.
 Detect tumors as small as 1 to 3mm in diameter.
 Before operation: to exclude the possibility of biatrial multiple
tumors.
 Postoperative TEE: ensures a normal echocardiography before
leaving the operation room.
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Echocardiography
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Left atrial myxomas
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 Coronary angiography si performed in myxomas
patients more than 40 years of age to rule out
significant coronary disease.
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Coronary angiography
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 Neither CT or MRI is needed for atrial myxomas if
an adequate echocardigraphy is available.
 Exception: occasional right atrial myxoma that
extends into one or both caval or tricuspid orrifices.
 CT or MRI should be reserved for the situation in
which the diagnosis or characterization of the tumor
is unclear after complete echocardigraphic evalution
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CT and MRI
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 Only effective therapeutic option
 Should not be delayed because of the risk of embolization
or cardiovascular complications, including sudden death
 Operative mortality us related to advanced age or
disability and comorbid conditions
 Removal of atrial myxomas carries an operative mortality
of 5% or less. Excision of ventricular myxomas can carry a
higher risk (approximately 10%)
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Treatment: surgical resection
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 Patients are at risk for recurrence of the myxoma, which
may occur in 2 to 5 percent of cases, or the
development of additional lesions.
 Recurrence is more common in patients whose primary
tumor was multicentric, younger patients, patients with
a family history of myxoma.
 The disease –free interval averages about 4 years and
can be as brief as 6 months.
 DNA testing of all patients with cardiac myxoma may
prove to be the best predictor of the likelihood of
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Recurences
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Carney complex
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 Well – encapsuled tumors consisting of mature fat cells.
 Occure anywhere: pericaridum, subendocardium,
subepicardium and intra-atrial septum.
 Any age – no sex predilection
 Slow growing - no more than a few centimeters in size,
lipomas as large as 4.8 kg have been reported.
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Lipoma
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 Asymptomatic and are discovered incidentally on routine
echocardiography, or at surgery or autopsy.
 Symptoms, when present, are generally related to local tissue
encroachment (arrhythmias, conduction
block, sudden death). Valvular tumors can cause insufficiency
and symptoms of heart failure.
 Pericardial lipomas are typically an incidental finding and
clinically insignificant. Rarely, a pericardial lipoma can assume
gigantic proportions and its appearance on a chest radiograph
may be mistaken for a huge pericardial effusion or massive
cardiomegaly.
 The diagnosis can be made with echocardiography and the
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Lipoma
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Lipoma
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Lipoma
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 Large tumors that produce severse symptoms should be
resected.
 Smaller, asymptomatic tumors encountered
unexpectedly during cardiac operation should be
removed if excision can be performed without adding
risk to prmary procedure.
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Lipoma: treatment
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 The second most common primary cardiac tumor in adults.
 Arise characterically from cardiac valves or adjacent
endocardium.
 Cytomegalovirus has been discovered in these tumors,
suggesting the possibility of viral induction of the tumor and
chronic endocarditis.
 Their appearance is often compared to sea anemones, with
frondlike arms emanating from a stalked central core.
 AV and semilunar valves are affected with equal frequency.
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Papillary fibroelastoma
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 Papillary fibroelastoma
removed from the aortic
valve.
Note the thin multiple fronds
that resemble a sea anenome.
Papillary fibroelastoma
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73Reprinted from Journal of the American College of Cardiology, volume 30, Klarich, KW, EnriquezSarano, M, Gura, GM, et al. Papillary
fibroelastoma: Echocardiographic characteristics for diagnosis and pathogenesis correlation, p.784, Copyright 1997 with permission from the
American College of Cardiology
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 Approximately 30% of papillary fibroelastomas were
asymptomatic and diagnosed incidentally, either by
echocardiography, at cardiac surgery, or at autopsy.
 Clinical features – Symptoms usually were caused
by embolization, either of the tumor itself or
thrombus. The most common clinical presentation
was stroke or transient ischemic attack, followed by
angina, myocardial infarction, sudden death, heart
failure, syncope or presyncope, and systemic or
pulmonary embolic events
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Papillary fibroelastoma
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 While some recommend surgery for all patients because of
the risk of embolization and associated morbidity, others
have suggested that careful observation is an acceptable
option for asymptomatic patients, as long as the tumor
remains small and nonmobile.
 Surgery is recommended for patients who have had embolic
events or complications directly related to tumor mobility
(eg, coronary ostial occlusion), and those with highly mobile
or large (≥1 cm) tumors.
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Papillary fibroelastoma
 The most frequently occuring cardiac tumor in children.
 Presents during the first few days after birth.
 80 - 90 percent are associated with tuberous sclerosis, a
hereditary disorder characterized by harmatomas in
various organs, epilepsy, mental deficiency and
sebaceous adenomas.
 Multiple (90%), occur with approximately equal
frequency in both ventricles, the atrium is involved in
fewer than 30% of patients.
 Rhabdomyomas are usually found in the ventricular
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Cardiac Rhadomyoma
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 Firm, gray, nodular and tend to project into the
ventricular cavity.
 Microscopy: myocytes of twice the normal sized filled
with glycogen, containing hyperchromatic nuclei and
eosinophilic – staining cytoplasmic granules.
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Cardiac Rhadomyoma
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 Clinical findings may mimic valvular or subvalvular
stenosis.
 Arrhythmias, particularly ventricular tachycardia and
sudden death, may be a presenting symptom.
 Atrial tumors may produce atrial arrhythmias.
 Rarely, no intramyocardial tumor is found in a patient
with ventricular arrhythmias, and the site of
rhabdomyoma is located by electrophysiologic study.
 The diagnosis is made by echocardiography.
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Cardiac Rhadomyoma
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Cardiac Rhadomyoma
Rhabdomyoma Héctor Gonzalo Quiroga Pacheco, MD.
Centro Medico Profesional Rosancar. Barquisimeto. Estado Lara – Venezuela
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Cardiac Rhadomyoma
Rhabdomyoma Héctor Gonzalo Quiroga Pacheco, MD.
Centro Medico Profesional Rosancar. Barquisimeto. Estado Lara – Venezuela
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 Early operation is recommeded in patients who do
not have tuberous sclerosis before 1 year of age.
 Symptomatic tumors often are both multiple and
extensive, particularly in patients with tuberous
sclerosis, who, unfortunately, have a dismal long-
term outlook. In such circumstances, surgery offers
little benefit
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 Most rhabdomyomas regress spontaneously, and resection
is usually not required unless a child is
symptomatic (1)
 Tuberous sclerosis is associated with more than half of all
cardiac rhabdomyomas. The indications for surgical
intervention in patients with tuberous sclerosis are the same
as those for patients without this disease (2)
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Cardiac Rhadomyoma
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(2) Surgical treatment for cardiac rhabdomyoma in children 1994
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 Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a genetic disorder
affecting cellular differentiation, proliferation, and
migration early in development, resulting in a variety of
hamartomatous lesions that may affect virtually every
organ system of the body.
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Tuberous sclerosis
Tuberous Sclerosis - Medscape
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Tuberous sclerosis: clinical criteria
Updated diagnostic criteria for tuberous sclerosis complex 2012
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Tuberous sclerosis: clinical criteria
Definite diagnosis: Two major
features or one major feature with
≥2 minor features
Possible diagnosis: Either one
major feature or ≥2 minor features
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Three hypopigmented macules the lower back/upper buttocks.
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Facial angiofibromas. Ungual fibromas.
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(A)Fibrous plaque on face.
(B) (B) Fibrous plaque on scalp.
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Shagreen patch on dorsolumbar area of back.
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Dental pits Intraoral fibromas (gingival and labial
indicated by arrows)
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 75% primary maglinant cardiac tumors are sarcomas.
 Sporadically – no inherited linkage
 Entire age spectrum, usually occur in adults more than
40 years
 Mc Allister’s survey:
 Angiosarcomas (31%)
 Rhabdomyosarcomas (21%)
 Maglinant mesotheliomas (15%)
 Fibrosarcomas (11%)
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Sarcoma
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 The clinical presentation is largely determined by the
location of the tumor, rather than its histopathology.
 Symptoms: congestive heart failure, pleuritic chest
pain, malaism anorexia and weight lost.
 Some develop refractory arrhythmias, syncope,
pericardial effusion and tamponade.
 The diagnostic approach relies upon
echocardiography, MRI, and CT to define the
presence of a tumor and its anatomic relationship to
normal structures.
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Sarcoma
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Surgical resection
Chemotherapy
Radiotherapy
Heart transplantation
Cardiac
autotransplantation
Palliative therapy
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Treatment of primary
maglinant tumor
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 Maglinant primary cadiac tumors may grow to a
large size before detection
 Extensive myocardial involvement or location
affecting the fibrous trigone of the heart
 Complete resection impossible
 Orthotopic cardiac transplantation: treatment
option
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Cardiac transplantation
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 Most of patients undergone chemotherapy and
radiation prior to transplantation.
 In the largest series, results of cardiac transplantation
in patients with malignant tumors (most of which
were sarcomas) were evaluated in a review of 21
cases. Although mean survival was only 12 months,
seven patients were free of recurrent malignancy at a
mean follow up of 27 months.
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Cardiac transplantation
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 An alternative treatment, cardiac autotransplantation, has
shown promise. In these cases, the heart is excised, the
tumor is resected ex vivo, and the heart is reconstructed
before being reimplanted. The advantage of this procedure
is the increased ease with which major resection and
reconstruction can be performed, while at the same time
avoiding the need for antirejection treatment.
 Because of poor survival, lesions requring a
pneumonectomy in addition to cardiac transplantation
should be considered a contraindication to surgery.
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Cardiac autotransplantation
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 In general, sarcomas proliferate rapidly, and cause death
through widespread infiltration of the myocardium,
obstruction of blood flow through the heart, and/or distant
metastases.
 Although complete resection is the treatment of choice,
most patients develop recurrent disease and die of their
malignancy even if their tumor can be completely resected.
 The median survival is typically 6 to 12 months
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Prognosis
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 Angiosarcomas are composed of malignant cells that form
vascular channels.
 2 – 3 times more common in men than in women.
 Predominant in the right side of the heart (80% RA)
 These tumors tend to be bulky and aggressively invade
adjacent structures, including the great veins, tricuspid
valve, RV free wall, interventricular septum, and right
coronary artery.
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Angiosarcoma
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Angiosarcoma
Angiosarcoma of the right
atrium. (A) Initial
echocardiogram apical four-
chamber view demonstrating
pericardial tamponade and a
suspected right atrial mass.
(B) Operative photograph
showing a tumor in the free
wall of the right atrium. (C)
High-power section showing
a malignant spindle cell
tumour with spaces filled
with red blood cells, typical
of angiosarcoma
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Angiosarcoma
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 Most of these tumors have spread by the time of
presentation, usually to the lung, liver and brain.
 Without resection, 90% of the patients are dead within 9 to
12 months of diagnosis despite radiation or chemotherapy.
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Angiosarcoma
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Incidences
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Tumor Total
(No.)
Cardiac
(%)
Pericardial
(%)
Leukemia 420 53.9 22.4
Melanoma 59 34.0 23.7
Lung cancer 402 10.2 15.7
Sarcoma 207 9.2 9.2
Breast cancer 289 8.3 11.8
Esophageal cancer 65 7.7 7.7
Ovarian cancer 115 5.7 7.0
Kidney cancer 95 5.3 0.0
Gastric cancer 3.8 3.6 3.2
Prostate cancer 186 2.7 1.0
Colon cancer 214 0.9 2.8
Lymphoma 75 - 14.6
Metastatic cardiac disease
Data from Perry MC. Cardiac metastasis. In: Kapoor AS, editor. Cancer and the heart; 1986
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Metastatic sites
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
 Means of spread:
 Hematogenous and ultimately via coronary arteries
 Lymphatic channels
 Direct extension from adjacent organs: lung, breast,
esophageal, thymic tumors
 subdiaphragmatic vena cava
 Pericardium is involved most often by direct
extension of thoracic cancer.
 Heart: hematologous and/or retrograde lymphatic
metastasis
Pathophysiology
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Pathophysiology
J Clin Pathol. 2007 Jan; 60(1): 27–34.
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 Clinical symptoms in only about 10% of afflicted
patients
 The most common symptom is pericardial effusion
or cardiac tamponade. Occasionally, patients
develop refractory arrhythmias or congestive heart
failure.
 The specific symptoms will reflect the site of cardiac
involvement, in a manner analogous to primary
cardiac tumors.
Clinical manifestration
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
 The diagnostic evaluation is the same as that for primary
cardiac tumors and relies upon
echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and
computed tomography (CT) to ascertain the extent of
cardiac involvement.
 Echocardiography is particularly useful for diagnosis of
pericardial effusion, irregular pericardial thickening, or
intracavity masses interfering with blood flow.
Diagnostic evaluation
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Aaron D. Goldberg et al. Circulation. 2013;128:1790-1794
112

 Limited to relief of recurrent pericardial effusions or,
ocassionally, cardiac tamponade.
 Symptomatic palliation with minimal patient
discomfort and hospital stay.
 Intracardiac obstruction by cardiac metastases may
necessitate surgery, although outcomes may be poor
if ventricular function has been irreversibly
compromised (2)
Treatment: surgical therapy
(2) Tumors Metastatic to the Heart,Aaron D. Goldberg, Ron Blankstein, Robert F. Padera
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 Leukemia or lymphoma involving the heart, even
with curative intent.
Systemic chemotherapy
114

115

 Tumors involving the heart may cause symptoms by
obstruction of circulation, interference with heart valves,
direct invasion of the myocardium, invasion of adjacent
lung, embolization, or by the production of constitutional
symptoms.
 The signs and symptoms of a cardiac tumor are generally
determined by the location of the tumor in the heart rather
than by its histopathology
116
Summary

 If a cardiac tumor is suspected, imaging procedures are used
to determine whether or not a mass is present and where the
tumor is located within the heart.
 Echocardiography is the simplest technique for such
evaluation; MRI and CT provide more detailed information.
Tumors that occur from or invade the epicardial surface of
the heart require coronary angiography preoperatively to
define distortion of the coronary arteries and determine
coronary blood supply of the tumor.
117
Summary

 Over 75% of cardiac tumors are benign, and the majority of
these are myxomas. About 80% of myxomas arise in the left
atrium and most of the remainder are found in the right
atrium.
 Myxomas are managed with prompt surgical resection
because of the risk of embolization or other cardiovascular
complications.
118
Summary

 Primary malignant tumors of the heart are rare; most of
these are sarcomas. Primary sarcomas arising in the heart
generally are rapidly progressive and cause death through
infiltration of the myocardium, by obstructing circulation,
or by distant metastases.
 When feasible, treatment is surgical, although most of these
tumors recur relatively rapidly.
119
Summary

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      Classification  Incidence Clinical manifestations and Diagnostic evaluations  Approach to cardiac mass  Benign tumors  Primary maglinant tumors  Secondary cardiac tumors Contents 2
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     Nonneoplastic tumors: •Thrombi •Infections •Cysts varices •Degenerativeprocesses (calcification) •Heterotopias •Extracardiac processess (hiatal hernia, esophageal diverticulum) Classification 4 Chapter 4 - Cardiac tumors: Overview and Pathology Joerg Herrmann
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      Among theneoplastic lesions, benign and maglinant tumors can be distinguished as well as primary and metastatic processes.  Fewer than 10% of primary cardiac neoplasms are maglinant.  The classification of some lesions, such as papillary fibroelastoma, is jet unclear despite the fact that this is thought to be one of the most common adult cardiac tumors, and why precisely they arise is poorly understood. Classification 5 Chapter 4 - Cardiac tumors: Overview and Pathology Joerg Herrmann
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     Pseudotumors Mural thrombi Heterotopiasand tumors of ectopic tissues Tumors of atrioventricular nodal region Teratoma Ectopic thyroid Tumors of mesenchymal tissue Harmatoma of endocardial tissue Papillary fibroelastoma Harmatoma of cardiac muscle Rhadomyoma Histocytoid cardiomyopathy (Purkinje cell) Classification by Pathology 9 Chapter 6 - Cardiac tumors: Treatment Joerg Herrmann
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     Tumors and neoplasmsof fat Lipomatous hypertrophy, interarterial septum Lipoma Liposarcoma Tumors and neoplasms of fibrous and myofibroblastic tissue Fibroma Inflammatory pseudotumor (inflammatory myofibrolastic tumor Sarcomas (maglinant fibrous histocytoma, fibrosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma) Classification by Pathology 10 Chapter 6 - Cardiac tumors: Treatment Joerg Herrmann
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     Vascular tumors and neoplasms Hemangioma Epitheliodhemangioendothelioma Angiosarcoma Neoplasm of uncertain histogenesis Myxoma Neoplasm of neural tissue Granular cell tumor Schwannorma/neurofibroma Classification by Pathology 11 Chapter 6 - Cardiac tumors: Treatment Joerg Herrmann
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     Paragandolioma Maglinant schawannoma/ neurofbrosarcoma(rare) Maglinant lymphoma Maglinant mesothelioma Metastatic tumors to the heart Classification by Pathology 12 Chapter 6 - Cardiac tumors: Treatment Joerg Herrmann
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      Primary cardiactumors are extremely rare. As an example, in one series of over 12,000 autopsies, only seven were identified, for an incidence of less than 0.1 percent.  Metastatic involvement of the heart is over 20 times more common and has been reported in autopsy series in up to one in five patients dying of cancer. Incidence William H Gaasch, MD, Thomas J Vander Salm, MD,Cardiac Tumors (2017) Up To Date 13
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     Why are cardiactumors rare ? 14 Matters of the Heart: Why Are Cardiac Tumors So Rare? – National Cancer Institute https://www.cancer.gov/types/metastatic-cancer/research/cardiac-tumors
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     Incidence 15 Clinical classification ofcardiovascular tumors and tumor-like lesions, and its incidences Jun Amano, Jun Nakayama, Yasuo Yoshimura, and Uichi Ikeda
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     Incidence of tumorsorginated from the heart 16
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     Incidence of tumorsorginated from the heart 17
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     Incidence of tumorsorginated from the heart in childen 18
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     Clinical manifestation  Cardiactumors: symptomatic or incidentally found  Symptoms may mimic other cardiac conditions => clinical challenge is to consider the possibility of a cardiac tumor so that the appropriate diagnostic test(s) can be conducted.  Echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and/or computed tomography (CT). 20 William H Gaasch, MD, Thomas J Vander Salm, MD,Cardiac Tumors (2017) Up To Date
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      The specificsigns and symptoms of cardiac tumors generally are determined by the location of the tumor in the heart and not by its histopathology.  Benign histology does not necessarily equate to a benign clinical course.  Small, histologically benign lesions can still cause devastating consequences through thromboembolic events or arrhythmogenesis.  Large, histologically benign lesions can obstruct blood flow and result in heart failure. Clinical manifestation 21 William H Gaasch, MD, Thomas J Vander Salm, MD,Cardiac Tumors (2017) Up To Date
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      Embolization: usuallysystemic but can be pulmonic. Aortic valve and left atrial tumors were associated with greatest risk of embolization.  Obstruction of the circulation through the heart or heart valves, producing symptoms of heart failure.  Interference with the heart valves, causing regurgitation  Direct invasion of the myocardium, resulting in impaired left ventricular function, arrhythmias, heart block, or pericardial effusion with or without tamponade.  Invasion of the adjacent lung may cause pulmonary symptoms and may mimic bronchogenic carcinoma.  Constitutional or systemic symptoms Mechanism of symptoms production 22
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     Left atrial tumors Rightatrial tumors Right ventricular tumors Left ventricular tumors Clinical manifestration 23
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      Tumors arisingin the left atrium tend to grow into the atrial lumen and cause symptoms by obstructing blood flow or creating mitral regurgitation. => Mitral valve disease, heart failure and/or PAH  Dyspnea, orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, pulmonary edema, cough, hemoptysis, edema, and fatigue.  Left atrial tumors may release tumor fragments or thrombi into the systemic circulation => embolization and neurologic complications.  Benign myxomas are the most common tumors arising in the left atrium . Left atrial tumors 24 William H Gaasch, MD, Thomas J Vander Salm, MD,Cardiac Tumors (2017) Up To Date
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     Tumors arisingin the right atrium grow into the atrial lumen and obstruct blood flow. => hemodynamic changes similar to tricuspid stenosis.  Signs and symptoms of right heart failure.  Tumor fragments may be released into the pulmonary circulation, causing symptoms consistent with pulmonary emboli.  Right atrial hypertension can result in shunting of venous blood into the systemic circulation if a patent foramen ovale (or atrial septal defect) is present => hypoxemia or systemic emboli.  Myxomas are the most common tumors of the right atrium. Sarcomas, angiosarcomas have been reported. Right atrial tumors 25
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      Lesions arisingin the right ventricle most commonly interfere with filling and/or outflow from the right ventricle => rightsided heart failure.  Tumors arising in the right ventricle can be misdiagnosed as pulmonic stenosis, restrictive cardiomyopathy, or tricuspid regurgitation. Right ventricular tumors 26 William H Gaasch, MD, Thomas J Vander Salm, MD,Cardiac Tumors (2017) Up To Date
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      Tumors arisingin the left ventricle may be intramural and present with arrhythmias or conduction defects.  Systemic embolization or outflow obstruction  Syncope or left ventricular failure. Left ventricular tumors 27 William H Gaasch, MD, Thomas J Vander Salm, MD,Cardiac Tumors (2017) Up To Date
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     Whether or nota cardiac tumor is present. The location of the lesion within the heart. Whether a tumor is benign or malignant (to extent possible). => Echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography (CT), cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Diagnostic evaluation: Goals 29 Chapter 5 - Cardiac tumors: Imaging Joerg Herrmann
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      Widely available, simple, noninvasive technique for the initial evaluation.  Images both the myocardium and the cardiac chambers => identify the presence of a mass and its mobility.  Provide information about any obstruction to the circulation, as well as the likelihood that the tumor could be a source of emboli. Echocardiography 30 Chapter 5 - Cardiac tumors: Imaging Joerg Herrmann
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      Use ofintravenous ultrasound contrast agents can improve the diagnostic utility of echocardiography.  Evaluate the vascularity and perfusion of cardiac masses  Differentitate nonvasuclar thrombi from vascular neoplasms  3D echocardiography: may be benificial in selected cases. Routine use: uncertain benefit. Echocardiography 31 Chapter 5 - Cardiac tumors: Imaging Joerg Herrmann
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     More informative Proximity ofthe esophagus to the heart. The lack of intervening lung and bone. The ability to use highfrequency imaging transducers that afford superior spatial resolution. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) 32 Chapter 5 - Cardiac tumors: Imaging Joerg Herrmann
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      Fast imageacquisiton  High spatial resolution of cardiac structures  Compared with echocardiography, CT provides superior tissue characterization, specifically of fat and calcium.  ECG-gated CT: functional analysis of cardiac valves and myocardial function as well as multiplanar reconstructions.  Evaluation entire thorax Cardiac CT 33 Chapter 5 - Cardiac tumors: Imaging Joerg Herrmann
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      Best tissuecharacterization  Provide functional evaluation of cardiac structures and morphologic evaluation in multiple planes  Imaging the entire thorax. Cardiac MRI 34 Chapter 5 - Cardiac tumors: Imaging Joerg Herrmann
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    Modality Pros Cons EchocardiographyWidely available, highest spatial and temporal resolution, real-time evaluation of dynamic structures Tissue characterization is limited, most operator – dependent modality Limited evaluation of extracardiac intrathoracic structures ECG-gated CT Very fast image accquistion, excellent characterization of fat and calcium Evaluates entire throax Tissue characterization is worse than MRI Worse temporal resolution than echo Ionizing radiation. Cardiac MRI Best tissue characterization, allows for structural and functional resolution Evaluates entire thorax Worst spatial resolution Long image accquistion time Safety issues with some implanted devices Imaging modalities of cardiac tumors 35
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      Evaluating tumorspread throughout the body  Useful in identifying cardiac involvement in patients with metastatic tumors, atrial myxoma, or lipomatous septal hypertrophy. PET scan 36 Chapter 5 - Cardiac tumors: Imaging Joerg Herrmann
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     Mapping theblood supply of tumors arising from the epicardial surfaces must be performed with coronary angiography.  This information is vital to the success of excising such tumors.  Significant involvement of coronary arteries with tumor may require resection and grafting of such arteries.  For those with epicardial tumors, coronary angiography is specifically required to assess the location of the tumor’s nutrient vessels and any that are parasitized by the tumor Coronary angiography 37
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      Quite challengingbecause of location.  Some tumors (particularly those arising from in the right heart) are amenable to endomyocardial sampling by wave of bioptome.  Maglinant lesions that involve pericardium => cytologic analysis or pericardial fluid.  In general, the information from noninvasive imaging is sufficient to make a decision regarding the need for surgery, where a definitive histologic diagnosis can be established. Tumors biopsy 38 William H Gaasch, MD, Thomas J Vander Salm, MD,Cardiac Tumors (2017) Up To Date
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     Diagnosis •Patient – specificcharacteristics (age and clinical context: fever, DVT,…) •Lesions – specific characteristics (shape, form, localization) •Differential diagnosis: normal variant, thrombus, vegetation Approach to cardiac mass 41 Chapter 6 - Cardiac tumors: Treatment Joerg Herrmann
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     Evaluation of cardiacmass 42 Chapter 6 - Cardiac tumors: Treatment Joerg Herrmann
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     Evaluation of cardiacmass focusing on histologic context 43 Chapter 6 - Cardiac tumors: Treatment Joerg Herrmann
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    1. Myxoma 2. Lipoma 3.Papillary fibroelastomas 4. Rhadomyoma 44
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     Myxoma  50% ofall benign cardiac tumors in adults and 15% of such tumors in children. Infancy: rare  Sporadically and tend to be more common in women  Occurene: between third and six decades of life.  94% tumors are solitary  75% occur in left atrium; 10 – 20%: right atrium  Low recurrence rate 45 Chapter 6 - Cardiac tumors: Treatment Joerg Herrmann William H Gaasch, MD, Thomas J Vander Salm, MD,Cardiac Tumors (2017) Up To Date
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      DNA genotypeof sporadic myxomas is normal in 80% of patients.  5% of myxoma patients show a familial pattern of tumor development based on autosomal – dominant inheritance.  20% sporadic myxoma patients have abnormal DNA genotype chromosomal pattern. Genetic findings 46
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      Younger  Male= female  More often (22%) have multicentric tumors orinating from either the atrium or ventricle.  Higher recurrence rate after surgical resection (21 – 67%)  Associated conditions (20%): adrenocortical nodule hyperplasia, sertoli cell tumors of the testes, pituitary tumors, multiple myxoid breast fibroadenomas, cutaneous myomas and facial or labial pigmented spots Familial Myxoma 47
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      Composed ofscattered cells within a mucopolysaccharide stroma.  The cells originate from a multipotent mesenchyme that is capable of neural and endothelial differentiation.  Myxomas produce vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which probably contributes to the induction of angiogenesis and the early stages of tumor growth. Histology 48
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      Typical myxomasare pedunculated and gelatinous in consistency  The surface may be smooth, villous, or friable.  Tumors vary widely in size, ranging from 1 to 15 cm in diameter, and weigh between 15 and 180 g.  About 35 percent of myxomas are friable or villous, and these tend to present with emboli.  Myxomas tend to grow into the overlying cardiac cavity rather than into the surrounding muocardium. Histology 49
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     50 Histology  Large polypoidmass with atrial septum attached, highlighted by the arrow. Note the focal hemorrhage. This is a typical myxoma.
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     51 Histology  Pathologic specimen demonstratinga large myxoma (M) in the left atrium (LA)
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     52 Histology  Atrial myxoma.Clusters and single polygonal cells with an irregular cytoplasm and dark nuclei can be seen. Note the background of the myxoid material.
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      Intracardiac obstruction Congestive heart failure  Signs of embolization  Constitutional symptoms  Fever  Weight loss or fatigue  Immunologic manifestration  Myalgia  Weakness  Arthralgia  Cardiac arrthymias and infections: less frenquently 54 Clinical Presentation
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      LA  Positioneddyspnea  Signs and symptoms of heart failure associated with left atrial and pulmonary venous pressure.  Syncope: mitral stenosis or temporary occlusion of the mitral orifice  RA:  Right-sided heart failure  Tricuspid valve stenosis  Central cyanosis and paradoxic embolization (patent foramen ovale is present)  Ventricular myxomas: ventricular outflow obstruction 55 Obstruction
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     Because mostmyxomas are left-sided, approximately 50% of embolic episodes affect the central nervous system, owing to both intracranial and extracranial vascular obstruction => intracranial aneurysm, seizures, hemiparesis and brain necrosis.  Retinal artery embolization with visual loss occurs in some patients.  Other sites of embolization: iliac, femoral arteries, renal and coronary arteries.  Right – sided myxomasemboli mainly obstruct Pas => PAH and even death from acute obstruction. 56 Embolization
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      Rare complication Clinical picture of endocarditis infection  Increases the likelyhood of systemic embolization 57 Infection
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      Nonspecific abnormalities:chamber enlargement, bundle-branch blocks, axis deviation, atrial fibrillation (20%)  Most ECGs are not helpful in establishing a diagnosis 58 ECG
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      Most usefultest for the diagnosis and evaluation of myxoma. Sensitivity of 2D echocardiography is 100%.  TEE: provide information concerning tumor size, location, mobility, and attachment.  Detect tumors as small as 1 to 3mm in diameter.  Before operation: to exclude the possibility of biatrial multiple tumors.  Postoperative TEE: ensures a normal echocardiography before leaving the operation room. 59 Echocardiography
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      Coronary angiographysi performed in myxomas patients more than 40 years of age to rule out significant coronary disease. 61 Coronary angiography
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      Neither CTor MRI is needed for atrial myxomas if an adequate echocardigraphy is available.  Exception: occasional right atrial myxoma that extends into one or both caval or tricuspid orrifices.  CT or MRI should be reserved for the situation in which the diagnosis or characterization of the tumor is unclear after complete echocardigraphic evalution 62 CT and MRI
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      Only effectivetherapeutic option  Should not be delayed because of the risk of embolization or cardiovascular complications, including sudden death  Operative mortality us related to advanced age or disability and comorbid conditions  Removal of atrial myxomas carries an operative mortality of 5% or less. Excision of ventricular myxomas can carry a higher risk (approximately 10%) 63 Treatment: surgical resection William H Gaasch, MD, Thomas J Vander Salm, MD,Cardiac Tumors (2017) Up To Date
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      Patients areat risk for recurrence of the myxoma, which may occur in 2 to 5 percent of cases, or the development of additional lesions.  Recurrence is more common in patients whose primary tumor was multicentric, younger patients, patients with a family history of myxoma.  The disease –free interval averages about 4 years and can be as brief as 6 months.  DNA testing of all patients with cardiac myxoma may prove to be the best predictor of the likelihood of recurence. 64 Recurences
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      Well –encapsuled tumors consisting of mature fat cells.  Occure anywhere: pericaridum, subendocardium, subepicardium and intra-atrial septum.  Any age – no sex predilection  Slow growing - no more than a few centimeters in size, lipomas as large as 4.8 kg have been reported. 66 Lipoma William H Gaasch, MD, Thomas J Vander Salm, MD,Cardiac Tumors (2017) Up To Date
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     Asymptomatic andare discovered incidentally on routine echocardiography, or at surgery or autopsy.  Symptoms, when present, are generally related to local tissue encroachment (arrhythmias, conduction block, sudden death). Valvular tumors can cause insufficiency and symptoms of heart failure.  Pericardial lipomas are typically an incidental finding and clinically insignificant. Rarely, a pericardial lipoma can assume gigantic proportions and its appearance on a chest radiograph may be mistaken for a huge pericardial effusion or massive cardiomegaly.  The diagnosis can be made with echocardiography and the distinctive fat pattern seen on MRI 67 Lipoma
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      Large tumorsthat produce severse symptoms should be resected.  Smaller, asymptomatic tumors encountered unexpectedly during cardiac operation should be removed if excision can be performed without adding risk to prmary procedure. 70 Lipoma: treatment
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      The secondmost common primary cardiac tumor in adults.  Arise characterically from cardiac valves or adjacent endocardium.  Cytomegalovirus has been discovered in these tumors, suggesting the possibility of viral induction of the tumor and chronic endocarditis.  Their appearance is often compared to sea anemones, with frondlike arms emanating from a stalked central core.  AV and semilunar valves are affected with equal frequency. 71 Papillary fibroelastoma
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     72  Papillary fibroelastoma removedfrom the aortic valve. Note the thin multiple fronds that resemble a sea anenome. Papillary fibroelastoma
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     73Reprinted from Journalof the American College of Cardiology, volume 30, Klarich, KW, EnriquezSarano, M, Gura, GM, et al. Papillary fibroelastoma: Echocardiographic characteristics for diagnosis and pathogenesis correlation, p.784, Copyright 1997 with permission from the American College of Cardiology
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      Approximately 30%of papillary fibroelastomas were asymptomatic and diagnosed incidentally, either by echocardiography, at cardiac surgery, or at autopsy.  Clinical features – Symptoms usually were caused by embolization, either of the tumor itself or thrombus. The most common clinical presentation was stroke or transient ischemic attack, followed by angina, myocardial infarction, sudden death, heart failure, syncope or presyncope, and systemic or pulmonary embolic events 74 Papillary fibroelastoma
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      While somerecommend surgery for all patients because of the risk of embolization and associated morbidity, others have suggested that careful observation is an acceptable option for asymptomatic patients, as long as the tumor remains small and nonmobile.  Surgery is recommended for patients who have had embolic events or complications directly related to tumor mobility (eg, coronary ostial occlusion), and those with highly mobile or large (≥1 cm) tumors.  Recurrence of cardiac papillary fibroelastoma following surgical resection has not been reported. 75 Papillary fibroelastoma
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     The mostfrequently occuring cardiac tumor in children.  Presents during the first few days after birth.  80 - 90 percent are associated with tuberous sclerosis, a hereditary disorder characterized by harmatomas in various organs, epilepsy, mental deficiency and sebaceous adenomas.  Multiple (90%), occur with approximately equal frequency in both ventricles, the atrium is involved in fewer than 30% of patients.  Rhabdomyomas are usually found in the ventricular walls or on the atrioventricular valves. 76 Cardiac Rhadomyoma
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      Firm, gray,nodular and tend to project into the ventricular cavity.  Microscopy: myocytes of twice the normal sized filled with glycogen, containing hyperchromatic nuclei and eosinophilic – staining cytoplasmic granules. 77 Cardiac Rhadomyoma
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      Clinical findingsmay mimic valvular or subvalvular stenosis.  Arrhythmias, particularly ventricular tachycardia and sudden death, may be a presenting symptom.  Atrial tumors may produce atrial arrhythmias.  Rarely, no intramyocardial tumor is found in a patient with ventricular arrhythmias, and the site of rhabdomyoma is located by electrophysiologic study.  The diagnosis is made by echocardiography. 78 Cardiac Rhadomyoma
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     80 Cardiac Rhadomyoma Rhabdomyoma HéctorGonzalo Quiroga Pacheco, MD. Centro Medico Profesional Rosancar. Barquisimeto. Estado Lara – Venezuela
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     81 Cardiac Rhadomyoma Rhabdomyoma HéctorGonzalo Quiroga Pacheco, MD. Centro Medico Profesional Rosancar. Barquisimeto. Estado Lara – Venezuela
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      Early operationis recommeded in patients who do not have tuberous sclerosis before 1 year of age.  Symptomatic tumors often are both multiple and extensive, particularly in patients with tuberous sclerosis, who, unfortunately, have a dismal long- term outlook. In such circumstances, surgery offers little benefit 82 Cardiac Rhadomyoma Chapter 6 - Cardiac tumors: Treatment Joerg Herrmann
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      Most rhabdomyomasregress spontaneously, and resection is usually not required unless a child is symptomatic (1)  Tuberous sclerosis is associated with more than half of all cardiac rhabdomyomas. The indications for surgical intervention in patients with tuberous sclerosis are the same as those for patients without this disease (2) 83 Cardiac Rhadomyoma (1)William H Gaasch, MD, Thomas J Vander Salm, MD,Cardiac Tumors (2017) Up To Date (2) Surgical treatment for cardiac rhabdomyoma in children 1994
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      Tuberous sclerosiscomplex (TSC) is a genetic disorder affecting cellular differentiation, proliferation, and migration early in development, resulting in a variety of hamartomatous lesions that may affect virtually every organ system of the body. 84 Tuberous sclerosis Tuberous Sclerosis - Medscape
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     85 Tuberous sclerosis: clinicalcriteria Updated diagnostic criteria for tuberous sclerosis complex 2012
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     86 Tuberous sclerosis: clinicalcriteria Definite diagnosis: Two major features or one major feature with ≥2 minor features Possible diagnosis: Either one major feature or ≥2 minor features
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     87 Three hypopigmented maculesthe lower back/upper buttocks.
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     89 (A)Fibrous plaque onface. (B) (B) Fibrous plaque on scalp.
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     90 Shagreen patch ondorsolumbar area of back.
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     91 Dental pits Intraoralfibromas (gingival and labial indicated by arrows)
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      75% primarymaglinant cardiac tumors are sarcomas.  Sporadically – no inherited linkage  Entire age spectrum, usually occur in adults more than 40 years  Mc Allister’s survey:  Angiosarcomas (31%)  Rhabdomyosarcomas (21%)  Maglinant mesotheliomas (15%)  Fibrosarcomas (11%) 93 Sarcoma
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      The clinicalpresentation is largely determined by the location of the tumor, rather than its histopathology.  Symptoms: congestive heart failure, pleuritic chest pain, malaism anorexia and weight lost.  Some develop refractory arrhythmias, syncope, pericardial effusion and tamponade.  The diagnostic approach relies upon echocardiography, MRI, and CT to define the presence of a tumor and its anatomic relationship to normal structures. 94 Sarcoma
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      Maglinant primarycadiac tumors may grow to a large size before detection  Extensive myocardial involvement or location affecting the fibrous trigone of the heart  Complete resection impossible  Orthotopic cardiac transplantation: treatment option 96 Cardiac transplantation
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      Most ofpatients undergone chemotherapy and radiation prior to transplantation.  In the largest series, results of cardiac transplantation in patients with malignant tumors (most of which were sarcomas) were evaluated in a review of 21 cases. Although mean survival was only 12 months, seven patients were free of recurrent malignancy at a mean follow up of 27 months. 97 Cardiac transplantation
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      An alternativetreatment, cardiac autotransplantation, has shown promise. In these cases, the heart is excised, the tumor is resected ex vivo, and the heart is reconstructed before being reimplanted. The advantage of this procedure is the increased ease with which major resection and reconstruction can be performed, while at the same time avoiding the need for antirejection treatment.  Because of poor survival, lesions requring a pneumonectomy in addition to cardiac transplantation should be considered a contraindication to surgery. 98 Cardiac autotransplantation
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      In general,sarcomas proliferate rapidly, and cause death through widespread infiltration of the myocardium, obstruction of blood flow through the heart, and/or distant metastases.  Although complete resection is the treatment of choice, most patients develop recurrent disease and die of their malignancy even if their tumor can be completely resected.  The median survival is typically 6 to 12 months 99 Prognosis
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      Angiosarcomas arecomposed of malignant cells that form vascular channels.  2 – 3 times more common in men than in women.  Predominant in the right side of the heart (80% RA)  These tumors tend to be bulky and aggressively invade adjacent structures, including the great veins, tricuspid valve, RV free wall, interventricular septum, and right coronary artery. 100 Angiosarcoma
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     101 Angiosarcoma Angiosarcoma of theright atrium. (A) Initial echocardiogram apical four- chamber view demonstrating pericardial tamponade and a suspected right atrial mass. (B) Operative photograph showing a tumor in the free wall of the right atrium. (C) High-power section showing a malignant spindle cell tumour with spaces filled with red blood cells, typical of angiosarcoma
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      Most ofthese tumors have spread by the time of presentation, usually to the lung, liver and brain.  Without resection, 90% of the patients are dead within 9 to 12 months of diagnosis despite radiation or chemotherapy. 103 Angiosarcoma
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     Tumor Total (No.) Cardiac (%) Pericardial (%) Leukemia 42053.9 22.4 Melanoma 59 34.0 23.7 Lung cancer 402 10.2 15.7 Sarcoma 207 9.2 9.2 Breast cancer 289 8.3 11.8 Esophageal cancer 65 7.7 7.7 Ovarian cancer 115 5.7 7.0 Kidney cancer 95 5.3 0.0 Gastric cancer 3.8 3.6 3.2 Prostate cancer 186 2.7 1.0 Colon cancer 214 0.9 2.8 Lymphoma 75 - 14.6 Metastatic cardiac disease Data from Perry MC. Cardiac metastasis. In: Kapoor AS, editor. Cancer and the heart; 1986 106
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      Means ofspread:  Hematogenous and ultimately via coronary arteries  Lymphatic channels  Direct extension from adjacent organs: lung, breast, esophageal, thymic tumors  subdiaphragmatic vena cava  Pericardium is involved most often by direct extension of thoracic cancer.  Heart: hematologous and/or retrograde lymphatic metastasis Pathophysiology 108
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     Pathophysiology J Clin Pathol.2007 Jan; 60(1): 27–34. 109
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      Clinical symptomsin only about 10% of afflicted patients  The most common symptom is pericardial effusion or cardiac tamponade. Occasionally, patients develop refractory arrhythmias or congestive heart failure.  The specific symptoms will reflect the site of cardiac involvement, in a manner analogous to primary cardiac tumors. Clinical manifestration 110
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      The diagnosticevaluation is the same as that for primary cardiac tumors and relies upon echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and computed tomography (CT) to ascertain the extent of cardiac involvement.  Echocardiography is particularly useful for diagnosis of pericardial effusion, irregular pericardial thickening, or intracavity masses interfering with blood flow. Diagnostic evaluation 111
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     Aaron D. Goldberget al. Circulation. 2013;128:1790-1794 112
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      Limited torelief of recurrent pericardial effusions or, ocassionally, cardiac tamponade.  Symptomatic palliation with minimal patient discomfort and hospital stay.  Intracardiac obstruction by cardiac metastases may necessitate surgery, although outcomes may be poor if ventricular function has been irreversibly compromised (2) Treatment: surgical therapy (2) Tumors Metastatic to the Heart,Aaron D. Goldberg, Ron Blankstein, Robert F. Padera 113
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      Leukemia orlymphoma involving the heart, even with curative intent. Systemic chemotherapy 114
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      Tumors involvingthe heart may cause symptoms by obstruction of circulation, interference with heart valves, direct invasion of the myocardium, invasion of adjacent lung, embolization, or by the production of constitutional symptoms.  The signs and symptoms of a cardiac tumor are generally determined by the location of the tumor in the heart rather than by its histopathology 116 Summary
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      If acardiac tumor is suspected, imaging procedures are used to determine whether or not a mass is present and where the tumor is located within the heart.  Echocardiography is the simplest technique for such evaluation; MRI and CT provide more detailed information. Tumors that occur from or invade the epicardial surface of the heart require coronary angiography preoperatively to define distortion of the coronary arteries and determine coronary blood supply of the tumor. 117 Summary
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      Over 75%of cardiac tumors are benign, and the majority of these are myxomas. About 80% of myxomas arise in the left atrium and most of the remainder are found in the right atrium.  Myxomas are managed with prompt surgical resection because of the risk of embolization or other cardiovascular complications. 118 Summary
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      Primary malignanttumors of the heart are rare; most of these are sarcomas. Primary sarcomas arising in the heart generally are rapidly progressive and cause death through infiltration of the myocardium, by obstructing circulation, or by distant metastases.  When feasible, treatment is surgical, although most of these tumors recur relatively rapidly. 119 Summary

Editor's Notes

  • #7 Harmatoma: mô thừa dạng bướu
  • #8 Synovial sarcoma: sarcoma dạng hoạt dịch Leiomysosarcoma: u cơ trơn
  • #10 Papillary fibroelastoma: bướu sợi chun dạng nhú Histocytiod cardiomyopathy: loạn nhịp – rối loạn ty thể
  • #23 Constitutional: trchung liên quan đến thể trạng
  • #34 Temporal resolution: độ phân giải theo thời gian Spatial resolution: độ phân giải không gian
  • #42 Vegetation: sùi
  • #49 Multipotent: có thể phát triển thành nhiều loại tb
  • #50 Pedunculated: có cuống, consistency: Friable: dễ vụn, villous: có lông nhung
  • #53 Polygonal: nhiều cạnh
  • #68 Distinctive: phân biệt đc
  • #72 Sea anemones: hải quỳ biển Frond: lá dương xỉ Emanating: phát ra
  • #98 pertaining to a tissue transplant grafted into its normal place in the body.
  • #113 Imaging modalities for the identification and characterization of cardiac metastases. Top (A–C), Cardiac magnetic resonance in a patient with metastatic melanoma shows a 2×1-cm mass involving the myocardium of the distal anterolateral wall that displays increased signal intensity on both T1-weighted (T1W) imaging and T2-weighted (T2W) imaging. D, Echocardiography reveals a mass in the right atrium, found to be renal cell carcinoma from direct invasion via the inferior vena cava. E, Contrast-enhanced gated cardiac computed tomography (CT) demonstrates a large multilobed mass shown as filling defect in the right atrium and right ventricle. The mass was resected with a biopsy showing a lipoleiomyoma. LV indicates left ventricle; and SSFP, steady-state free precession.
  • #116 Metastatic tumors involving the heart and pericardium. A, Photomicrograph of metastatic melanoma involving the myocardium resulting in destruction of cardiac myocytes. Hematoxylin and eosin stain, ×200 magnification. B, Photomicrograph of metastatic lung adenocarcinoma involving the epicardial lymphatics. Hematoxylin and eosin stain, ×100 magnification. C, Gross photograph of a metastatic renal collecting duct carcinoma filling the pericardial space and encasing the heart, resulting in constrictive physiology. D, Gross photograph of a T-cell lymphoma involving the myocardium in the area of the anterior right ventricle and anterior interventricular septum, resulting in arrhythmias. E, Gross photograph of a large endocardial metastasis from a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor involving the endocardium in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1 filling the right ventricle and resulting in right ventricular outflow tract obstruction.