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Pericardial Angiosarcoma

MedGen UID:
1642264
•Concept ID:
C4687701
•
Neoplastic Process

Definition

A rare angiosarcoma that arises from the pericardium. Patients present with symptoms related to pericardial effusion. [from NCI]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVPericardial Angiosarcoma

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Current clinical management of primary cardiac sarcoma.
Siontis BL, Leja M, Chugh R
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2020 Jan;20(1):45-51. Epub 2020 Jan 9 doi: 10.1080/14737140.2020.1711738. PMID: 31914831
Primary Cardiac Sarcoma: 25-Year Cleveland Clinic Experience.
Randhawa JS, Budd GT, Randhawa M, Ahluwalia M, Jia X, Daw H, Spiro T, Haddad A
Am J Clin Oncol 2016 Dec;39(6):593-599. doi: 10.1097/COC.0000000000000106. PMID: 25036471
Treatment of primary angiosarcoma of the heart.
Hollingsworth JH, Sturgill BC
Am Heart J 1969 Aug;78(2):254-8. doi: 10.1016/0002-8703(69)90017-9. PMID: 5816145

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

An unusual cause of a large fibrinous pericardial effusion.
Tembani-Munyandu NC, Makunike-Mutasa R, Katsidzira L, Chinogureyi A
Cardiovasc J Afr 2015 May 23;26(3):e7-e10. doi: 10.5830/CVJA-2014-075. PMID: 26592992Free PMC Article

Diagnosis

Multimodality Imaging for the Diagnosis of Primary Pericardial Angiosarcoma.
Zhao Y, Tian F, Ge Z, Pan C, Shu X
Circ J 2023 Aug 25;87(9):1250. Epub 2023 Jul 21 doi: 10.1253/circj.CJ-23-0397. PMID: 37482410
Rare case of primary pericardial angiosarcoma.
Tan BE, Abu Sheikha M, Chowdhury M, Kharsa A, Balmer-Swain M
Acta Cardiol 2021 May;76(3):329-331. Epub 2020 Apr 14 doi: 10.1080/00015385.2020.1747180. PMID: 32284021
Rare Case of Pericardial Angiosarcoma.
Li Y, Wang B, Zhang L, Yang Y, Wang J, Lv Q, Xie M
Circ Heart Fail 2018 Oct;11(10):e005342. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.118.005342. PMID: 30354402
Primary angiosarcoma of the pericardium: case report and review of the literature.
Timóteo AT, Branco LM, Bravio I, Pinto E, Timoteo T, Matos P, Ferreira RC
Kardiol Pol 2010 Jul;68(7):802-5. PMID: 20648441
Angiosarcoma of the heart: review of the literature and report of two cases that illustrate the broad spectrum of the disease.
Makhoul N, Bode FR
Can J Cardiol 1995 May;11(5):423-8. PMID: 7750039

Therapy

An unusual cause of a large fibrinous pericardial effusion.
Tembani-Munyandu NC, Makunike-Mutasa R, Katsidzira L, Chinogureyi A
Cardiovasc J Afr 2015 May 23;26(3):e7-e10. doi: 10.5830/CVJA-2014-075. PMID: 26592992Free PMC Article
Favorable course of pericardial angiosarcoma under paclitaxel followed by pazopanib treatment documented by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging.
Ong P, Greulich S, Schumm J, Backes M, Kaufmann M, Bode-Erdmann S, Ott G, Hebart H, Mahrholdt H
Circulation 2012 Oct 30;126(18):e279-81. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.128348. PMID: 23109517
Primary angiosarcoma of the pericardium: case report and review of the literature.
Timóteo AT, Branco LM, Bravio I, Pinto E, Timoteo T, Matos P, Ferreira RC
Kardiol Pol 2010 Jul;68(7):802-5. PMID: 20648441

Prognosis

Primary pericardial angiosarcoma: A case report.
Li W, Han L, Ye Z
J Nucl Cardiol 2022 Oct;29(5):2734-2737. Epub 2021 Feb 8 doi: 10.1007/s12350-020-02470-0. PMID: 33559092
Minimally invasive diagnosis of a pericardial mass by CT-guided fine-needle aspiration.
Llibre C, Saenz-Sardà X, Vilalta V, Tria L, Llatjós M, Ariza A, Bayes-Genis A
Cardiovasc Pathol 2016 Jul-Aug;25(4):275-279. Epub 2016 Apr 1 doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2016.03.005. PMID: 27131516
Angiosarcoma of the pericardium: a case report.
Ma GT, Liu JZ, Miao Q, Cui QC
Int J Clin Exp Pathol 2015;8(10):13568-70. Epub 2015 Oct 1 PMID: 26722576Free PMC Article
An unusual cause of a large fibrinous pericardial effusion.
Tembani-Munyandu NC, Makunike-Mutasa R, Katsidzira L, Chinogureyi A
Cardiovasc J Afr 2015 May 23;26(3):e7-e10. doi: 10.5830/CVJA-2014-075. PMID: 26592992Free PMC Article
Angiosarcoma of the heart: review of the literature and report of two cases that illustrate the broad spectrum of the disease.
Makhoul N, Bode FR
Can J Cardiol 1995 May;11(5):423-8. PMID: 7750039

Clinical prediction guides

An unusual cause of a large fibrinous pericardial effusion.
Tembani-Munyandu NC, Makunike-Mutasa R, Katsidzira L, Chinogureyi A
Cardiovasc J Afr 2015 May 23;26(3):e7-e10. doi: 10.5830/CVJA-2014-075. PMID: 26592992Free PMC Article
Pericardial angiosarcoma after mediastinal irradiation for seminoma. A case report and a review of the literature.
Killion MJ, Brodovsky HS, Schwarting R
Cancer 1996 Aug 15;78(4):912-7. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960815)78:4<912::AID-CNCR31>3.0.CO;2-W. PMID: 8756389

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