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Cardiac Tumors: Follow-up

Author: Julia Gates, MD, Consulting Staff and Assistant Residency Program Director, Department of Radiology, Baystate Medical Center
Coauthor(s): George Hartnell, MB, Professor of Radiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Director of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Baystate Medical Center
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Updated: Jul 30, 2008

Intervention

Benign cardiac tumors can usually be resected and have a good prognosis.

Lymphoma tends to be responsive to chemotherapy.39 Rhabdomyosarcomas may also be treated with chemotherapy. Pediatric rhabdomyomas are conservatively treated because many resolve spontaneously. Angiosarcomas have a poor prognosis and are not responsive to chemotherapy. Most patients die within 6 months of the diagnosis.6,12 In extreme cases, selective embolization or chemoembolization may help relieve the symptoms (see Image 19).

Outflow obstructions can be treated with stenting.108

Benign cysts can safely be drained under echocardiographic or CT guidance with a high expectation of success (see Images 28-30).

 


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Keywords

cardiac tumor, heart tumor, heart neoplasm, primary cardiac tumors, secondary cardiac tumors, cardiac neoplasms, heart tumors, benign cardiac tumor, heart neoplasm, pericardial tumor, pericardial neoplasm, cardiac masses, pericardial masses, cardiac pseudotumors, myxoma, endodermal tumor, cardiac sarcoma, cardiac valve tumor, pediatric cardiac tumors, cardiac tumors in childhood, rhabdomyosarcoma, pediatric rhabdomyoma

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Julia Gates, MD, Consulting Staff and Assistant Residency Program Director, Department of Radiology, Baystate Medical Center
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George Hartnell, MB, Professor of Radiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Director of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Baystate Medical Center
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