Lupus-like Syndrome and Cardiac Tamponade as Initial Presentation of a Primary Cardiac Malignant Tumor: Report of a Case

This is the case of a 38-year-old man with a history of two female relatives with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and personal factors of high cardiovascular risk (gender, stress, smoking, chronic consumption of electronic cigarette). The patient presented tamponade due to pericardial effusion secondary to Lupus-like syndrome that preceded and accompanied at all times an angiosarcoma of the roof and anterior wall of the right atrium. His clinical evolution is described, as well as the surgical and pharmacological treatment in the Cardiovascular Care Unit of a third-level hospital and the possible causes of the poor response to management that led to his death.

The Third Surgical Intervention for a Case of Recurrent Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma of the Left Atrium / 日本心臓血管外科学会雑誌

We report a rare case of primary cardiac undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma with invasion to the posterior mediastinum, for which partial resection of the tumor in the left atrium had already been carried out twice. After remission for about three years, recurrence in the atrial wall involving the mitral valve posterior leaflet required a third surgical resection following mitral valve replacement.