Intracardiac biopsy of cardiac tumors with echocardiographic guidance: Case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary cardiac tumors are very rare, and about 20-30% of them are malignant tumors. Since early signs of cardiac tumors are non-specific, diagnosis can be challenging. There is a lack of the recommended guidelines or standardized strategies for diagnosis and optimal treatment for this disease. As the definite diagnoses of most tumors are made by pathologic confirmation, biopsied tissue is essential in determining the treatment for patients with cardiac tumors. Recently, intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) has been introduced to assist biopsy procedures of cardiac tumors and it provides high-quality imaging.

Case description

Due to its low prevalence and variable presentation, cardiac malignant tumors usually are easily missed. Hereby, we report three cases

SUBMITTER: Zhu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10173306 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature