Primary Malignant Cardiac Tumors: A Rare Disease With an Adventurous Journey
Rajeev Gupta, Vineet Meghrajani, Rupak Desai, Neelesh Gupta
Abstract
It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view -Dalai Lama XIV C ardiac masses and tumors have always fascinated pathologists and cardiovascular physicians/surgeons alike. Before the mid-1950s, primary cardiac tumors were usually reported at autopsies. With the development of echocardiography, the imaging and diagnosis of tumors like myxoma became a possibility. With advancements in cardiopulmonary bypass, their resection and thus a cure became an exciting reality. Further developments in imaging, particularly echocardiography, 3-dimensional echocardiography, multidetector cardiac computed tomography (MDCT), and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), have facilitated antemortem diagnosis of cardiac tumors.