PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Atul Vijay Palkar
AU  - Ankit Gupta
AU  - Yonatan Greenstein
AU  - Eric Gottesman
TI  - Primary cardiac angiosarcoma: a rare cause of diffuse alveolar haemorrhage
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2018-225365
DP  - 2018 Jun 01
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr-2018-225365
VI  - 2018
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2018/bcr-2018-225365.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2018/bcr-2018-225365.full
AB  - Primary cardiac angiosarcoma is a rare disease with a dismal prognosis. We report a case of a 50-year-old man who presented with haemoptysis, cough and worsening dyspnoea. An intracardiac mass was visualised on echocardiogram. He was treated for diffuse alveolar haemorrhage and acute respiratory distress syndrome but died from refractory hypoxaemic respiratory failure leading to cardiac arrest. The diagnosis of primary cardiac angiosarcoma with haemorrhagic pulmonary metastases leading to diffuse alveolar damage was confirmed on autopsy.