Cardiac Metastases of Primary Gastric Adenocarcinoma Presenting as Cardiac Failure

Primary cardiac sarcoma presenting as acute left-sided heart failure

Primary cardiac sarcomas are rare malignant tumors of the heart. Clinical features depend on the site of tumor and vary from symptoms of congestive heart failure to thromboembolism and arrhythmias. Echocardiography is helpful but definitive diagnosis is established by histopathology. Surgical resection is the mainstay of treatment, and the role of chemotherapy and radiotherapy is unclear. We re...

Huge Intracavitary Cardiac Hyadatid Cyst Presenting with Heart Failure

Although cardiac involvement is an infrequent presentation in human hydatidosis, early diagnosis and prompt surgical intervention of cardiac hydatid cyst are of utmost importance for the prevention of potential complications. We report a young female patient who presented with a huge cardiac hydatid cyst and severe heart failure symptoms undergoing successful surgical cyst removal with late fol...

Antiphospholipid syndrome presenting as cardiac failure.

Sir, Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a thrombo-philic disorder commonly associated with venous and arterial thrombosis, recurrent fetal loss and thrombocytopenia. Even though cardiac manifestations are well recognized, congestive cardiac failure (CCF) as an initial presenting feature is very uncommon. We present three cases presenting predominantly as cardiac failure where the diagnosis of A...

Phaeochromocytoma presenting acutely as severe cardiac failure.

Chylothorax as presenting manifestation of adenocarcinoma with probable gastric primary.

Chylothorax is an unusual complication of various malignant neoplasms, generally lymphomas. The few reported cases of chylothorax with gastric and other abdominal malignancies have involved large abdominal masses with prominent adenopathy and chylous ascites. We describe a patient in whom chylothorax was the presenting manifestation of an adenocarcinoma with probable gastric primary, developing...