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Clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of patients with primary cardiac angiosarcoma: A systematic review

Chambergo-Michilot, Diego
De la Cruz-Ku, Gabriel
Sterner, Rosalie M
Brañez-Condorena, Ana
Guerra-Canchari, Pedro
Stulak, John
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Chambergo-Michilot, Diego
De la Cruz-Ku, Gabriel
Sterner, Rosalie M
Brañez-Condorena, Ana
Guerra-Canchari, Pedro
Stulak, John
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2023-03-16
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Primary cardiac angiosarcomas (PCA) are highly aggressive malignant heart tumors. Previous reports have shown a poor prognosis regardless of management, and no consensus or guidelines exist. It is necessary to clarify this information since patients with PCA have a short survival. Therefore, we aimed to systematically review clinical manifestations, management, and outcomes. We systematically searched in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and EMBASE. We intended to include cross-sectional studies, case-control studies, cohort studies, and case series that reported clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of patients with PCA. As a methodological approach, we used the Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Checklist for Case Series and the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for cohorts. We included six studies (five case series, one cohort). The mean/median age ranged from 39 to 48.9 years. Male sex was predominant. The most frequent manifestations were dyspnea (range: 50%-80%), pericardial effusion (29% & 56%), and chest pain (10%-39%). The mean tumor size ranged from 5.8 to 7.2 cm, with the majority of these localized in the right atrium (70-100%). The most common locations of metastasis were the lung (20%-55.6%), liver (10%-22.2%), and bone (10%-20%). Resection (22.9%-94%), and chemotherapy as neoadjuvant or adjuvant (30%-100%) were the most commonly used methods of treatment. Mortality ranged from 64.7% to 100%. PCA often presents late in its course and usually results in poor prognosis. We strongly recommend performing multi-institutional prospective cohorts to better study disease course and treatments to develop consensus, algorithms, and guidelines for this type of sarcoma.

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Chambergo-Michilot D, De la Cruz-Ku G, Sterner RM, Brañez-Condorena A, Guerra-Canchari P, Stulak J. Clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of patients with primary cardiac angiosarcoma: A systematic review. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res. 2023;15(1):1-8. doi: 10.34172/jcvtr.2023.30531. Epub 2023 Mar 16. PMID: 37342661; PMCID: PMC10278191.

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10.34172/jcvtr.2023.30531
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© 2023 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Attribution 4.0 International