Cardiac myxomas: clinical presentation, diagnosis and management

AG Griborio-Guzman, OI Aseyev, H Shah… - Heart, 2022 - heart.bmj.com
Cardiac myxomas (CM) are the most common type of primary cardiac tumours in adults,
which have an approximate incidence of up to 0.2% in some autopsy series. The purpose of …

Cardiac tumors: clinical perspective and therapeutic considerations

DY Ren, ND Fuller, SAB Gilbert, Y Zhang - Current drug targets, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Cardiac tumors rare cardiac disorders with an overall incidence rate Objective:
Given that cardiac tumors exhibit some nonspecific symptoms compared with other heart …

EACVI recommendations on cardiovascular imaging for the detection of embolic sources: endorsed by the Canadian Society of Echocardiography

A Cohen, E Donal, V Delgado, M Pepi… - European Heart …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cardioaortic embolism to the brain accounts for approximately 15–30% of ischaemic strokes
and is often referred to as 'cardioembolic stroke'. One-quarter of patients have more than …

Minimally invasive and conventional surgical treatment of primary benign cardiac tumors

C Luo, J Zhu, C Bao, F Ding, J Mei - Journal of cardiothoracic surgery, 2019 - Springer
Background Primary cardiac tumors are rare and the majorities are benign. Conventional
surgical treatment uses median sternotomy, while minimally invasive surgery from right …

[HTML][HTML] Factors affecting in-hospital mortality and likelihood of undergoing surgical resection in patients with primary cardiac tumors

T Isogai, H Yasunaga, H Matsui, H Tanaka, M Hisagi… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Previous studies on primary cardiac tumors were mainly based on small case
series collected from a limited number of institutions. Contemporary data of patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Incidence, prognostic significance, and survival outcomes of primary cardiac sarcoma: an updated population-based retrospective study

MB Hammami, H Fazel, MA Oudih - Anatolian journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective Primary cardiac sarcoma, a rare tumor with an aggressive course and imprecise
prognosis, constitutes over 95% of all malignant cardiac tumors. Given the sparsely …

[PDF][PDF] State of the art paper Sarcomas of the heart as a difficult interdisciplinary problem

S Ostrowski, A Marcinkiewicz, A Kośmider… - Archives of Medical …, 2014 - termedia.pl
Cardiac tumors are assumed to be a rare entity. Metastases to the heart are more frequent
than primary lesions. Sarcomas make up the majority of cardiac malignant neoplasms …

Biatrial approach provides better outcomes in the surgical treatment of cardiac myxomas

A Yüksel, D Saba, Y Velioğlu, S Ener… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
Objective: We aimed to present clinical features, surgical approaches, importance of surgical
technique and long-term outcomes of our patients with cardiac myxoma who underwent …

Genetic insights into cardiac tumors: a comprehensive review

S Sankarasubramanian, P Prabhakar… - Medical Oncology, 2022 - Springer
Cardiac neoplasms are rare, however, also a curable form of the disease once detected
early. In recent years the viscus tumors have gained their highlights, due to the …

Thrombolytic treatment of cardiac myxoma-induced ischemic stroke: a review

M Acampa, F Guideri, R Tassi, P D'Andrea… - Current drug …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Primary cardiac tumors are uncommon, with an autopsy frequency of 0.001%-0.28%: 75% of
them are benign, and 50-75% of these are myxomas. Often the first neurological …