Plana Juan Carlos, Iskander Sherif S, Ostrowski Mary L, Howell J F, Kurrelmeyer Karla, Raizner Albert E, Zoghbi William A
Section of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, The Methodist DeBakey Heart Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2003 Dec;16(12):1331-3. doi: 10.1067/j.echo.2003.07.002.
This case report details a patient with a cardiac angiosarcoma who had an unusual presentation with hemodynamics consistent with mitral stenosis and constrictive-effusive pericarditis. It illustrates how transesophageal echocardiography adds to the information obtained from transthoracic imaging and hemodynamics in this unusual presentation of a cardiac tumor.