DOI: 10.12890/2025_005150

Pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma mimics recurrent pulmonary artery embolism

Authors

  • Styliani Ioakeimidou Department of Internal Medicine, Buergerspital Solothurn, Solothum, Switzerland; Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Frank-Peter Stephan Department of Cardiology, Buergerspital Solothurn, Solothum, Switzerland
  • Emanuel Pluess Department of Internal Medicine, Buergerspital Solothurn, Solothum, Switzerland
  • Marcus Seeman Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Buergerspital Solothurn, Solothum, Switzerland
  • David Srivastava Department of Internal Medicine, Buergerspital Solothurn, Solothum, Switzerland

Styliani.ioakeimidou@usz.ch

Keywords

Pulmonary embolism, cardiovascular events, angiosarcoma

Abstract

Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism (PE) are the third most common cardiovascular condition. Pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma (PAIS) is a rare tumour and is often misdiagnosed as a PE.
This case report presents a 50-year-old man with fever, dyspnoea, cough and thoracic pain since a month. The patient had a history of two PE episodes. After diagnostic screening for tumour, including laboratory parameters, transthoracic echocardiography, computed tomography scan and positron emission tomography-computed tomography scan, PAIS was diagnosed. Unexplained recurrent PE should raise suspicion of a tumour or PAIS.

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Published

2025-06-03

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 7 (2025)

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Ioakeimidou S, Stephan F-P, Pluess E, Seeman M, Srivastava D. Pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma mimics recurrent pulmonary artery embolism. EJCRIM [Internet]. 2025 Jun. 3 [cited 2026 Nov. 3];12(7). Available from: https://ejcrim.com/index.php/ejcrim/article/view/5150