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Introduction Primary cardiac tumours are a rare phenomenon, however, cardiac metastases from extracardiac primaries are found in 10% of all tumour cases, often at autopsy.1 Despite this, patients rarely present with symptomatic cardiac metastases, as they normally reflect diffuse metastatic spread of the primary tumour.2 We present a case of an isolated, aggressive, symptomatic intracardiac metastasis of a recently resected high-grade spindle cell sarcoma of the left thigh. Case report Figure 1. Apical four-chamber view on echocardiography, showing the tumour (T) in the right ventricle. Also shown is the left ventricle (LV) and right atr

Caffeine intake may reduce risk of type 2 diabetes Coffee and caffeine intake may significantly reduce the incidence of type 2 diabetes, according to a new meta-analysis published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  Pertinent studies were identified by a search of PubMed and EMBASE. The fixed- or random-effect pooled measure was selected based on between-study heterogeneity. Dose–response relationship was assessed. Commenting on the implications of this study (doi: 10.1007/s00394-013-0603-x), London general practitioner Dr Sarah Jarvis said: “There is growing evidence to suggest that moderate coffee consumption, that’s four