Table 2.

Clinicopathologic features of sarcomas metastatic to the heart (n=4)

No	Age primary nsarcoma/sex	Age cardiac MTS	Site primary tumor	Histological type	Site of cardiac MTS	Time to cardiac MTS	Clinical symptoms	Other organ MTS	Outcome
1	36 F	49	Left upper arm	Conventional osteosarcoma	Left atrium	13 years	Functional mitral stenosis	Lung MTS 4 years before cardiac MTS	Died of lung MTS at 10 months.
2	31 F	51	Right gluteus maximus	Alveolar soft part sacroma	Interventricular septum, left ventricle	20 years	Paroxysmal cardiac pain.	Brain MTS 16 years ago and concurrent to heart MTS	Alive & well 34 months after HTX.
3	38 F	38	Thoracic wall	Spindle cell sarcoma	Left atrium, mitral valve	5 months	Bronchus tumor infiltration, no symptoms	None	Died of cardiopulmonary failure at 30 months.
4	62 M	65	Left thigh	Myxoid liposarcoma	Right atrium+ inferior vena cava	3 years	Slight dyspnea	None	Died of cardiopulmonary failure at 2 months.

F, female; M, male; MTS, metastasis; A&W, alive and well; HTX, heart transplantation.