Footnotes

• Contributors CB is in charge of the cardiac tumour registry at the University of Padua and wrote the paper. SR, MV and GT are involved in the registry of cardiac tumours at our university and critically reviewed the paper.

• Funding The authors are supported by the Registry for Cardio-cerebro-vascular Pathology, Veneto Region, Venice, Italy.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.