Primary Intimal Pulmonary Vein Sarcoma with Expansion
to the Left Atrium
Aleksandar Nikolić
DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2017.01.000201
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- 1Cardiac surgeon, Chief of Department of Cardiac Surgery, Clinical Centar of Montenegro, Europe
- 2Resident of cardiac surgery, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Clinical Centar of Montenegro, Europe
- 3Cardiac surgeon, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Clinical Centar of Montenegro, Europe
- 4Internal medicine specialist, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Clinical Centar of Montenegro, Europe
- 5Cardiology specialist, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Clinical Centar of Montenegro, Europe
Corresponding author:
Aleksandar Nikolić, cardiac surgeon, Chief of Department of Cardiac Surgery, Clinical Centar of Montenegro, Montenegro,
Europe
Received: July 11, 2017; Published: July 19, 2017
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Abstract
We have recently treated a patient with pulmonary vein sarcoma. It is a 65 year old women who was admitted to the hospital because
of the chest pain with propagations down her right arm, followed by suffocation and coughing out content with traces of blood and febrility
>38°C. The primarily suspected pulmonary embolism was ruled out after the diagnostic heart CT scan and transthoracal and transesophageal
echocardiogram which verified the existing of a tumor mass in the left atrium. The patient underwent an urgent surgery and the tumor mass
was removed surgically from the upper right pulmonary vein. The path histological diagnoses revealed pulmonary vein intimal sarcoma.
Pulmonary vein intimal sarcoma is one of the rarest sarcoma subtypes. To our knowledge, there is only one published case of such pathology
in the literature.
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