primary cardiac lymphoma is a rare disease which mainly found in elderly men. it is usually a b-cell non-hodgkin’s lymphoma which primarily located in the heart and may involve the pericardium. the common presentations include massive pericardial effusion and heart failure. clinical diagnosis is often delayed in these patients and prognosis is dismal. we report a case of a 70-year-old man prese...

Introduction: Cardiac myxoma is a benign and rare tumor, which can present with a grim phenomenon if the presentation is late or the diagnosis and surgery are delayed. The purpose of this study was to share our institutional experience of cardiac myxoma. Material and Methods: This retrospective study was conducted to evaluate patients undergoing procedures at a single tertiary care centre for t...

Calcified amorphous tumour (CAT) is an unusual nonneoplastic cardiac mass that may mimic malignant tumour of the heart (1) or vegetation (2). We report a 43-year-old female with type 1 diabetes and end-stage diabetic kidney disease on haemodialysis, who underwent transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) in the setting of pyrexia and negative blood cultures. No valve-related vegetation was identi...

Cardiac tumours can mimic collagen vascular disease and they are often accompanied by profound systemic upset. Both benign and malignant tumours may present in this way. Three cases of cardiac tumour, two malignant and one benign, are reported with just such a presentation. A review of fifteen similar case reports showed that a spectrum of different collagen vascular diseases was diagnosed and ...

Cardiac angiosarcoma is a rare tumour with very poor prognosis especially in patients with metastatic disease. We present the case of a 43 year old patient with angiosarcoma revealed by open lung biopsy for multiple pulmonary metastases. Cardiac symptoms were limited to a moderate pericarditis and no echocardiographic sign of heart tumour was observed. The clinical outcome was rapidly fatal des...

A 66-year old male was admitted for indications of a cardiac tumour. Chest magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a hyper-vascular tumour on the pericardium (Fig. 1A–C). A cardiac three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT) shows that the tumour was located exactly on a coronary artery (Fig. 2). An open biopsy proved that the metastasis originated in renal cell carcinoma. Figure 1: Chest M...

A case of right ventricular outflow obstruction is described in which the electrocardiogram and chest x-ray film suggested a cardiac tumour. Cardiac catheterisation confirmed outflow obstruction and angiography showed a tumour. At operation a haemangioendothelioma was found.