Incessant Atrial Tachycardia as First Presentation of Cardiac Angiosarcoma

Heajung L. Nguyen, MD; Duc Do, MD, MS; Janet K. Han, MD; Noel Boyle, MD, PhD; Michael Lewis, MD; Zenaida Feliciano, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Apr 2021)

Incessant Atrial Tachycardia as First Presentation of Cardiac Angiosarcoma

Heajung L. Nguyen, MD,
Duc Do, MD, MS,
Janet K. Han, MD,
Noel Boyle, MD, PhD,
Michael Lewis, MD,
Zenaida Feliciano, MD

Affiliations

Heajung L. Nguyen, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; Address for correspondence: Dr. Heajung L. Nguyen, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, CHS A2-237, Los Angeles, California 90095-1679, USA.
Duc Do, MD, MS: UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Janet K. Han, MD: UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA; Cardiac Electrophysiology Section, Division of Cardiology, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA
Noel Boyle, MD, PhD: UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Michael Lewis, MD: Department of Pathology, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA
Zenaida Feliciano, MD: UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA; Cardiac Electrophysiology Section, Division of Cardiology, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 4
pp. 619 – 624

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Primary cardiac angiosarcomas are rare malignant tumors with a very poor prognosis. We present a case of a 48-year-old man with no previous cardiac history who developed an incessant focal atrial tachycardia complicated by tachycardia-mediated cardiomyopathy as a consequence of cardiac angiosarcoma. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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