History and Physical Examination of Different Cardiac Masses Publisher



Mousavi SA¹ ; Mirhosseini A¹
Source: Multimodal Imaging Atlas of Cardiac Masses Published:2022

Abstract

Tumors involving the heart may cause symptoms by obstruction of circulation, interference with heart valves, direct invasion of the myocardium, invasion of adjacent lung, or embolization. Constitutional or flu-like symptoms may be present. Cardiac myxoma is the most common benign heart tumor. The tumor plop sound is one of the classic and characteristic auscultation findings of cardiac myxoma. Over 75% of cardiac tumors are benign, and the majority of these are myxomas. Approximately 80% of myxomas arise in the left atrium and most of the remainder are found in the right atrium. Primary malignant tumors of the heart are rare; most of these are sarcomas. Primary sarcomas arising in the heart generally are rapidly progressive and cause death through infiltration of the myocardium. Metastatic involvement of the heart is relatively frequent. Cardiac or pericardial metastases should be considered whenever a patient with known malignancy develops cardiovascular symptoms. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.