systolic murmurs/sarcoma

Insidious and progressive right heart failure of obscure origin warrants differential diagnosis of primary sarcoma of the pulmonary artery in patients of both sexes and 20 years of age and older. We report a case of primary leiomyosarcoma of the pulmonary truncus in a 67 years old woman. She had

A 65-year-old female presenting with worsening dyspnea and notable weight loss were found to have a systolic murmur on physical examination. On workup with computed tomography (CT) angiogram, a solid mass was found extending from the inferior vena cava into the right ventricle. Transesophageal

Malignant primary cardiac tumors have uniformly been associated with poor long-term survival. We reviewed data on 11 patients with such tumors seen between 1956 and 1986. There were five men and six women, with a mean age at presentation of 44 years. Nine (82 percent) of 11 patients presented

OBJECTIVE To analyze myocardial abnormalities in patients of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome with clinical and pathological correlation. METHODS We selected 50 cases, retrospectively, age ranged from 3 months to 40 years, all of them had myocardial changes and the data of clinical records