Louro J, Villanueva T, Freire J, Passos M J
Medicine Department, Centro Hospitalar Oeste Norte, Caldas da Rainha, Lisbon, Portugal.
Case Rep Oncol. 2010 Nov 29;3(3):434-438. doi: 10.1159/000322726.
Even though intracardiac sarcoma metastases are rare, they have been previously reported in the literature. We report the case of a 60-year-old man who had a synovial sarcoma with metastasis in the right ventricle. These findings were associated with the presence of a new cardiac murmur and severe thrombocytopenia. The treatment with systemic chemotherapy resulted in a normalization of the patient's hematologic profile and in a reduction of the intracardiac mass. The patient subsequently underwent intracardiac tumor resection.