Introduction Malignant cardiac neoplasia is a rare entity with an extremely low incidence that has a nonspecific clinical presentation that may mimic other conditions. It can present arrhythmias and complications such as ischemia due to coronary flow obstruction. More than 75% of primary cardiac tumors are benign. Of the 25% of malignant tumors, 75% are sarcomas.– Primary cardiac tumors can have a primary or metastatic origin and are diagnosed by imaging methods. Primary tumors occur more frequently in the left […]

Primary mediastinal sarcoma is rare, corresponding to less than 1% of all soft tissue sarcomas and less than 10% of all primary mediastinal tumors. A 52-year-old man with signs and symptoms of cardiac tamponade underwent echocardiography of the right ventricle, which revealed significant pericardial effusion and an extensive heterogeneous mediastinal mass measuring approximately 15 × 8 cm in the pericardial space in close contact with the right chambers and causing diastolic collapse. The diagnostic hypothesis was a pericardial or mediastinal […]