Saudi Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SJMPS)
Volume-4 | Issue-10 | 1164-1169
Original Research Article
Primary and Secondary Malignant Cardiac Tumors Overview
Iman Moustafa, M. Essam Badawy
Published : Oct. 30, 2018
Abstract
Cardiac tumors are massively uncommon disease, only seven instances of primary cardiac tumor found between more than 12,000 dissections. Cardiac tumors are proliferated in the heart or heart valves. Cardiac tumors may be primary (benign or malignant) or metastatic (secondary, malignant). Cardiac tumors may happen in any heart tissue. Primary tumorsstart growing in the heart, other side the secondary tumors begin in another part of the body and move to the heart (metastasize). Primary tumors influence just one out of 1,000 to 100,000 individuals. The most widely recognized sort of primary heart tumor is myxoma, the greater part of these are benign. In most cases, the tumor develops in the left upper chamber of the heart (left atrium) at the atrial septum, which isolates the two upper chambers of the heart. Successful treatment for benign cardiac tumors is typically proficient by surgery. Primary sarcomas of the heart are to a great degree uncommon, while secondary cardiac contribution inferable from malignancy is relatively common, particularly in the setting of across the board metastatic disease. Malignant primary tumors incorporate pericardial mesothelioma, primary lymphoma and sarcoma. Tumors that metastasize to the heart from different organs happen 100-to 1000-cases more commonly than primary cardiac tumors. Metastatic spread to the heart has been distinguished in approximately one-fifth of all patients who have metastatic disease with lung carcinoma being the most common primary tumor. Successful treatment for primary malignant tumors is normally accomplished by Surgery, notwithstanding, secondary tumors less effective as total resection is ordinarily not possible. Primary cardiac lymphoma might be effectively treated by chemotherapy.