A Female Patient with Heart Fibrosarcoma. A Case Review

Česká verzia

Authors: V. Kurfirst; A. Mokráček; M. Rezler
Authors place of work: Kardiochirurgické oddělení, Nemocnice České Budějovice, a. s., primář MUDr. Aleš Mokráček, CSc.
Published in the journal: Rozhl. Chir., 2008, roč. 87, č. 7, s. 352-354.
Category: Monothematic special - Original

Summary

Authors are in their announcement describing a case of a patient with fibrosarcoma of a left atrium, who was treated on Cardiosurgery department in Hospital of České Budějovice. Symptoms, clinical signs and development of this disease are described in the text. There are also information relating cardiac sarcomas, management of their diagnostics and treatment.

Key words:
cardiac sarcomas – fibrosarcoma – echocardiography – chemotherapy – autotransplantation

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