A thirty-one-year old pregnant woman with infiltrative cardiac masses

• Main Authors: Zahra Alizadeh-Sani, Kambiz Mozaffari, Zahra Khajali
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2013-01-01
• Series: Research in Cardiovascular Medicine
• Subjects: Malignant Tumor; Liposarcoma; Myxoid; Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Online Access: http://www.rcvmonline.com/article.asp?issn=2251-9572;year=2013;volume=2;issue=1;spage=66;epage=69;aulast=Alizadeh-Sani;type=0

Primary cardiac tumors are rare in all ages. Their reported prevalence ranges from 0.001 to 0.03 percent in autopsy series. 25 percent of primary cardiac tumors are considered to be malignant, the majority of which are sarcomas. On account of the late presentation of symptoms in malignant heart masses, finding locally infiltrative tumors or systemically widespread cases at initial presentation is common. We present a case of malignant heart tumor in a thirty-one-year old woman who was first examined here after the termination of pregnancy.