Burnside Nathan, MacGowan Simon W
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2012 Dec;15(6):1004-6. doi: 10.1093/icvts/ivs350. Epub 2012 Aug 24.
Management of malignant tumours of the heart remains a poorly investigated clinical area due to the scarcity of presentations. The purpose of this series and review is to present an outline of the management emphasized by our personal experience in a regional cardiothoracic centre.
We reviewed all cases presenting with primary cardiac tumours in our institution within the last 10 years, looking at presentation, management and outcomes.
Of these, the records of 3 patients, who attended the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and were treated for a cardiac sarcoma, were fully evaluated. A review of current literature was conducted through a search of Pubmed and Medline databases. A review of the presentation of these patients and the generally accepted management deterioration of patients diagnosed with cardiac sarcoma is discussed.
With reference to our case series, we want to draw attention to the rapid deteriation of these patients following presentation.
由于心脏恶性肿瘤病例罕见，其治疗仍是一个研究较少的临床领域。本系列病例及综述的目的是根据我们在一个地区心胸中心的个人经验，概述其治疗方法。
我们回顾了本机构过去10年中所有原发性心脏肿瘤病例，观察其临床表现、治疗方法及治疗结果。
其中，对3例在贝尔法斯特皇家维多利亚医院就诊并接受心脏肉瘤治疗的患者记录进行了全面评估。通过检索PubMed和Medline数据库对当前文献进行了综述。讨论了这些患者的临床表现以及被诊断为心脏肉瘤患者普遍公认的病情恶化情况。
参照我们的病例系列，我们想提请注意这些患者在就诊后病情的迅速恶化。
