Mitral Valve Obstruction and Pulmonary Congestion Due to Malignant Mesothelioma

Although cardiac tumors are relatively rare, their diagnosis is important because successful treatment is usually feasible if the diagnosis is made preoperatively. An analysis of 219 reports of cardiac tumors described in the English literature from 1972 through 1977 demonstrated the predominance of benign tumors, in particular myxoma, which is in agreement with past reviews. The methods of diagnosis employed included plain chest films, echocardiography, cardiac catheterization, angiocardiography, and cardiac scintigraphy. Conventional x-ray examination of the chest was abnormal in 83% of cardiac tumors but non-specific and should lead to further evaluation, first by echocardiography. Echocardiography, the most efficient diagnostic procedure for screening possible cardiac tumors, was abnormal in 94% of the cases. Cardiac catheterization was abnormal in 80% of cardiac tumors while definitive detection was made by angiocardiography in 94% of the cases. Cardiac scintigraphy has had limited use in the diagnosis of cardiac tumors, but has been diagnostic in 100% of the cases in a small series of myxomas.

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Imaging procedures in the detection of cardiac tumors, with emphasis on echocardiography: A review

Bogren

DeMaria

Mason

1980

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol

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Intracardiac Involvement by Primary Malignant Mesothelioma: A Report of Two Cases

Kabbash

Edmund

Ghafoor

et al. 2020

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

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Pericardial mesothelioma: An incidental intraoperative diagnosis

Griffin

Farmer

Garwood

et al. 1999

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

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Mitral Valve Obstruction and Pulmonary Congestion Due to Malignant Mesothelioma

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Imaging procedures in the detection of cardiac tumors, with emphasis on echocardiography: A review

Imaging procedures in the detection of cardiac tumors, with emphasis on echocardiography: A review

Intracardiac Involvement by Primary Malignant Mesothelioma: A Report of Two Cases

Pericardial mesothelioma: An incidental intraoperative diagnosis

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